Ongoing Events
Submit your socially-focused idea or start-up to the Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise's Social Venture Innovation Challenge. Details found on the CSIE website here.
Check in with meeting lead regarding your i2P participation prior to the start of the virtual meeting. Attend all or significantly all of the event (no “swipe and leave” allowed) - there may be a quiz! Maximum of 3 meetings for 1,500 VSCs total (500 VSC per meeting). Join meetings via Zoom here.
Meeting dates during i2 Passport:
- Sept 23
- Oct 7
- Oct 21
- Nov 4
Receive VSCs for following the ECenter on Facebook, Instagram, and/or LinkedIn by November 9, 2020. You will receive 500 VSCs for ONE follow. Additional follows are not worth additional VSCs • You must provide your social media handle at registration • You must send a screen shot to the ECenter at e.center@unh.edu to verify you followed the ECenter. Screen shots received before the September 20th Kick-off Party will appear as VSCs in your account after the Kick-off Party.
The purpose of the Maurice Prize is to encourage and foster innovation, creativity, originality, ingenuity, and resourcefulness in undergraduate students enrolled at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).
The goal of the Maurice Prize is to encourage students to be daring and not to fear failure. Students should know that not achieving everything they set out to achieve is not a failure, but an invaluable learning experience.
The Maurice Prize is offered in the belief that the education students receive derives benefit when students undertake projects of their own choosing and in doing so apply their knowledge, tap their ingenuity, identify valuable resources, and exercise their ability to work with others.
The UNH Maurice Prize Judges will award the Maurice Prize annually to the participating student or team of students deemed to have done the most outstanding work on a project.
Please note that this is not a prize for an idea TO DO… but a prize for an idea that has been worked on. The Registration of Intent is the starting point which will be evaluated.
Unlike the Summer Seed Grant, the Maurice Prize requires no post-award engagement with the ECenter. Winner(s) may use the $5,000 prize for any purpose. If the winning participant is a team of students, the team shall determine how the Maurice Prize shall be used and how it shall be divided among the members.
Maurice Prize winner(s) are required to provide information for all taxes and reporting prior to being awarded the check. Winner(s) will be required to complete a W-9 tax form and other documents as required by UNH and the IRS guidelines and are solely responsible for any tax implications of this award and should consult their tax advisors for additional information.
In order to receive the Maurice Prize, participants give permission to the ECenter at the University of New Hampshire to use photographs, audio and video recordings of participant(s), without compensation, for promotional activities. All materials and summaries of the project will be required to be made available for future review on the MauricePrize.com website.
Check in with meeting lead regarding your i2P participation prior to the start of the virtual meeting. Attend all or significantly all of the event (no “swipe and leave” allowed) - there may be a quiz! Maximum of 5 meetings for 3,000 VSCs total (600 VSCs per meeting). The Zoom link for the virtual meetings can be found here.
The link to the Completion Survey will be added to this event AND emailed out the morning of November 10, 2020 (after all events/activities have finished for the semester). Please not this is a required activity in order to qualify for any prizes, including the minimum drawings.
If your idea or start-up makes it into the final round of the Social Venture Innovation Challenge, you earn 1,000 Visa Stamp Credits! You first need to apply to SVIC by November 2nd at noon. Finalists are notified by noon on November 16th by the Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise. Details can be found on the CSIE SVIC website here.
October 2020
Participate in UNH’s own Shark Tank Competition, pitch your idea to a panel of Venture Capitalists & Entrepreneurs judges! Register via Eventbrite. Attend the event via the Zoom link here.
November 2020
Learn the secrets to pitching your idea, your business, or yourself!
Details forthcoming. Virtual event!
Speaker is Debi Kleiman, Executive Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and author of First Pitch: Winning Money, Mentors, and More for Your Startup.
Attendees receive a copy of Debi's book!
You must register for this event in advance in Eventbrite in order to receive the Zoom link via email. Please note this event is virtual and may be recorded or live-streamed.
24-hours of problem-solving fun! Join Riverstone Group and Gather to solve hunger in New Hampshire!
Details forthcoming.
You must register for this event in advance in Eventbrite in order to receive the Zoom link via email. Please note this event is virtual and may be recorded or live-streamed.
Bring your toughest questions and learn how to make your student debt more manageable!
Join Joel Carstens, Director of UNH Financial Aid, as he shares insights you can use to make your student debt more manageable!
You must register for this event in advance in Eventbrite in order to receive the Zoom link via email. Please note this is a virtual event and may be recorded or live-streamed.