For the two University of Texas at Arlington students who won a $25,000 grant to scale up their entrepreneurial idea, their collaboration began when they identified a problem. Sami Ali, who recently graduated from UTA with a degree in information systems, was working at the university’s career development center when he noticed there were core courses students would constantly retake. He turned to his friend Ethan Debnath, a senior computer science major he met early on in college, to help him devise a solution.