Brandon Hudson is the first student selected for the Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, which allows students with an ongoing enterprise to take a year to focus their full attention on the venture. He will receive $15,000 in support and mentoring while also making progress on his RIT degree.

Jesse Buonanno, a fifth-year student graduating with a bachelor's and master's degree in computing security, plans to give back to his country the best way he knows how-by enhancing U.S. cybersecurity.