The Tom Tom Founders Festival held a Youth Summit at the Paramount Theater Thursday to support and highlight local student innovation.
The summit featured student-led presentations and several student entrepreneurial competitions. Wes Bellamy, vice-mayor of Charlottesville, gave the keynote address, and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a bill to protect the rights of student innovators.
The bill — House Bill 1230 — will clarify university intellectual property rights by specifying the conditions under which universities and colleges own intellectual property and when students own intellectual property.
