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Maurice Prize for Innovation
UNH Maurice Prize for
INNOVATION
mauriceprize.com
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. The Maurice Prize
encourages students to be daring and take risks without
fear of failure. Fred’s passion for innovation lives on through
this prize.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER ($5,000)
Brett Schultz
Campus Connector
RUNNERS-UP ($1,500 PER TEAM)
Sam Croteau and Tyler Wittman
Kronos Watches
James Sullivan and Anthony Lotane
Coweed
We are pleased to announce the Winner of the $5,000 Maurice
Prize for Innovation is Brett Schultz ’26. Brett is a Paul Scholar
and Honors student majoring in Business Administration with
options in Entrepreneurial Studies and Finance. His project,
College Connector, is a multipurpose app designed to alleviate
common social, emotional, and financial problems among
college students.
To help students socially and emotionally, College Connector
offers a free-to-use Connect feature to find other students
on campus with whom they can connect and share common
interests and activities. This feature allows campus clubs and
organizations to advertise themselves better and make them
more accessible to students. The app also helps students
financially, offering a Marketplace tool. This feature allows
students to sell goods and services to one another, where they
can meet on campus to process the transaction.
The Maurice Prize asks students to highlight
the growth, learning, and development
that occurred between submitting
their idea in the fall and completing
their analysis in the spring. Brett
articulated specific areas of learning as
he developed his project, making his efforts
rise to the top for all of the judges.
Maurice Prize for Innovation recipient Brett Schultz
for his idea College Connector
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