Ani Apresyan, former ACS intern and BLAST competition participant Hello! I’m Ani Apresyan, a rising junior majoring in Economics and Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I started working with Accelerate in 2023, participated in the first BLAST competition, and have stuck around in various capacities ever since! Last summer, a team of wonderful students at ACS engaged in an entire summer’s worth of dialogue and WhatsApp conversations, wherein local teens and...