Students start dorm lighting accessories company

After realizing how harsh and uncomfortable fluorescent lighting in dorm rooms can be, Iovine and Young Academy freshmen Nina Cragg, Jesse Walk, Andy Wood and Hana Morrison decided there was need for change. They took advantage of Glo Up, a company  originally created as a yearlong project for their “Disruptive Innovation” class, which requires groups of students to come up with a product and sell 100 units of it. The four decided they wanted to focus on making dorm rooms more inviting and comfortable. Wood was inspired to undertake the project because of his suitemate, who majors in lighting design, after watching him experiment with colored theater lighting gels in their room.