UNH Entrepreneurship Center Annual Impact Report 2019-2020

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: ECENTER JUDGES AND PANELISTS
IDEA & INNOVATION SOCIETY JUDGES
The Idea & Innovation Society was created to
embrace incoming innovative-minded first year
students from all colleges and backgrounds and
immediately provide a community of peers with
whom to connect, collaborate, share ideas and
resources, and help to run faster with their ideas and
innovations.
Eric Ciarla ‘22
Grace Higgins ‘22
Madison McEachern ‘23
MAURICE PRIZE FOR INNOVATION JUDGES
Endowed by J. Dolores and Alfred P. Maurice ‘44
The Maurice Prize for Innovation is an annual prize
endowed by J. Dolores and Alfred P. Maurice ‘44
to encourage and foster innovation, creativity,
originality, ingenuity, and resourcefulness in
undergraduate students enrolled at UNH with a prize
of $5,000. The Maurice Prize encourages students to
be daring and take risks without fear of failure.
Semra Aytur
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
College of Health and Human Services
Kendra Bostick ’23 (Ph.D.)
Gunnar De Young ‘23
Max Miller ‘20
Maithili Shroff
Licensing Associate, UNHInnovation
SUMMER SEED GRANT JUDGES
Sponsored by Pierce Atwood LLP
The Summer Seed Grant provides $16,000 to up to
four students to work on their early-stage ideas or
start-up companies over the summer, in lieu of a
summer job. This year, students worked remotely
and received mentoring from ECenter Executive
Director Ian Grant and ECenter Advisory Task Force
Member Mike McClurken. Learn more about our
Summer Seed Grant students earlier on in this
report!
Final Round Judges
Jamie Baker
Partner, Pierce Atwood LLP
Danee Fleckenstein
Accounts and Agency Manager, Catchfire Creative
Lynn Joyce
Sales Manager and Associate Broker with Tate & Foss
Sotheby’s International Realty
Mike McClurken
Retired Vice President of Research and Development
Bob Phillips
Managing Partner and CTO, 3EDGE Asset
Management
First Round Judges
Jane Deery
CEO, PGR Media
Heidi Feinstein
Co-founder, Soul Mana Farm & Food, Permculture
Innovation Center
Dick Tasker
Retired CEO and VP of Engineering, American Sensor
Technologies
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