March 2025

Grand Challenges celebrates GC students Adam Kulikowski and Jason Mo, whose team was one of the six finalists for the 2025 Inventure Prize! 

Mo and Kulikowski, both Computer Science majors, leaned into their long- time passion for, and expertise in, the sport of fencing in creating their invention, Allez Go. Here's a fun fact: the fencing blade is the second fastest object in the Olympics after the bullet. Looking to solve the problem of how to make a sport grow, they developed a live blade tracking system that can improve fencing broadcasts by visually emphasizing blade movements, making the matches more accessible and enjoyable for viewers.

These students truly are Grand Challengers - highly motivated, analytically intelligent, and relentlessly optimistic global citizens. They want to transform how we watch fencing, and we can’t wait to see it! 

Grand Challenges students have been selected as finalists in three of the past four years of the Inventure Prize; before Allez Go in 2025 there were Yash Dulla and Ishan Sheth (Breezy, 2024), and Brayden Drury and Wesley Pergament (Sola, winners of the 2022 Inventure Prize!) 

You can watch Kulikowski and Mo present Allez Go to the judges at the 2025 Inventure Prize competition (their introduction begins at 7 minutes into the broadcast.)