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DURHAM, N.H. 鈥� Beginning this fall, 25 first-year students at the 91制片厂 will receive seed money and support to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level. The Idea & Innovation Society will identify and engage incoming students from all colleges and majors with a demonstrated passion for, or experience with, ideas, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Every accepted student will be invited to submit an application.

鈥淭he society will embrace incoming and innovative-minded first-year students and immediately provide a community for them to connect, collaborate, share ideas and resources, and run faster with their ideas and ventures,鈥� said Ian Grant, director of the Entrepreneurship Center at 91制片厂 and manager of the society.

In addition to $200 of seed funding to help take their idea to the next level the selected students will have quarterly innovation meetings, access to alumni entrepreneur mentors, 1:1 coaching, and more.

鈥淲e are very excited to partner with the Entrepreneurship Center to offer this innovative program to first-year students,鈥� said Victoria Dutcher, 91制片厂鈥檚 vice president for enrollment management.听鈥淲e think it helps differentiate 91制片厂 from other schools and reinforces 91制片厂鈥檚 commitment to providing an innovative and entrepreneurial environment.鈥�

The society is funded by the ECenter鈥檚 WildCatalysts Network, a group of entrepreneurial 91制片厂 alumni donors.

The Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center (ECenter) is the co-curricular heart of ideas, innovation, and entrepreneurship at 91制片厂. Its goal is to create the next generation of leaders with an entrepreneurial mind-set who can see opportunities and identify creative solutions others have missed, one idea at a time. The ECenter delivers unique hands-on experiential programming that inspires, nurtures, and mentors students from any major, at every step of process, anywhere from idea development to company creation. We operate as a start-up in an academic environment, and all programs are donor funded.听