Freshman Experience: Biz 1+2 Winners

The Freshman Experience Biz 1+2 provides first-year students hands-on education through various applied-learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom. Throughout two semesters, this learning cohort lays the groundwork and foundation of business knowledge through elements of entrepreneurship and functional areas. It’s designed to help students decide if they’d like to continue onto a business major, double major, or change program after one year. Working with dedicated faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, it’s a unique experience compared to students at other business colleges that aren’t exposed to these learnings until their second or third year. 

Business plans are presented to a panel of alums and industry experts in the fall semester for professional guidance. Students continue to work on their projects throughout the spring semester and present them once again. This years winners were determined in both Professor Molly McGowan and Professor Rick Lagiewski Ph.D. classes.

2024-2025

MiniVac - Innovation Award

• Richard Keppler ‘28 (business exploration)
• Donovan Gallagher ‘28 (management)
• Josh Winter ‘28 (accounting)

• Akshay Kumar'28 (accounting and global business management)

Next Gen Bench - Community Impact Award

• Makenna Howe
  '27 (accounting)
• Daniel Cohen ‘28 (finance and accounting)
• Alexa Marsh ‘29 (accounting)
• Keegan Dennis ‘28 (accounting)

Profile Threads - Presentation Award

• Isabella Blood

  '28 (accounting)

• James Corry‘28 (finance)
• Anthony DeRosa
  '27 (business exploration)

Cleanslate - Financial Plan Award

• Lorenzo Graham'28 (management information systems)
• Isabella Dache ‘28 (marketing)
• Aaron Soybel'28 (management information systems)
• Santiago Galvis'29 (accounting and finance)

PureRest - Pinnacle Award

• Colin Casson'28 (global business management and finance)
• Leonel Garcia ‘28 (finance)
• Cassie Lang'29 (global business management and supply chain management)
• Noelle Thomas‘28 (global business management)
• Jeremiah Stormm-Reitter '28 (business exploration)

2023-2024

Audio Armor - Best Product

• Maggie Birmingham ‘27 (marketing and global business management)
• Kaitlin Black
  ‘27 (finance)
• Sean Crowley ‘27 (finance)

Welcome to Gatezy - Best Product

• Eason Chin’27 (finance)
• Riston Bertoli ‘27
• Madison Macko ‘27
• Sara Wild ‘27
• L Zheng ’27 (management information systems)

Filter X “Practically Pure - Best Pitch

• Taylor Drummond ‘27
• Chloe Kress ‘28 (marketing)
• Stefan Rogowski
• Michael Thompson

LaundryLink - Best Pitch

• Sofia DePasquale ‘27 (marketing)
• Elizabeth Robertson ‘23 (marketing)
• William Van Zandt

2022-2023

Professor McGowan’s Class

The Arc Backpack - Best Product

• Sean Bastien ‘26 (global business management)
• Sehaj Singh ‘26 (global business management)
• Charlie Slaymaker ‘26 (business exploration)
• Brian Yan ‘26 (finance).

Metaheat Glove - Best Pitch

• Kayleigh Gallagher ‘26 (marketing)
• Rania Sabri ‘26 (global business management)
• Blessing Smith ‘26 (management information systems)

Professor Lagiewski’s class

Sleep Tight LLC - Best Product

• Anushka Nagaraj ‘26 (global business management)
• Esther Nguyen ‘26 (finance)
• Justeena Paulson ‘26 (finance)
• Abhir Saluja ‘26 (business exploration)
• Andrea Santos Vega ‘26 (global business management)

Laundry Rollpack - Best Pitch

• Rachel O’Connor ‘26 (global business management)
• Ethan Maharaj ‘26 (management information systems)
• Zane Warren ‘26 (management information systems)
• Roselyn Vazquez ‘26 (hospitality and tourism management)

2021-2022

Bye Bye Bag

• Nick Lucarini'25 (business administration and management)
• Halle Wagner '25 (supply chain management)
• Jeremy Heise'26 (accounting)
• Parker Hoyt'25 (marketing)

Tiger Taxi

• Tre'Ahna Gains'26 (MBA)
• Felix-Nadine Herweg
• Michael Santoro
• Evan Snyder'25 (accounting)​

2020-2021

B Straws

• Jada Jennings'24 (management information systems)
• Justin McFadden'23 (management information systems)

EZ Waste

• Ayushi Patel'24 (marketing)
• Jessica Klein'25 (supply chain management)
• Seth Russo'24 (management)

2019-2020

StylleUp

• Nishad Pasricha(management information systems)
• Leah Norton'23 (management information systems)
• Nicholas Molinari'22 (accounting)
• Hannah Springer'23 (accounting)

Toasty Toes

• Mitch Hitchcock'23 (marketing)
• Mike Penna'23 (management information systems)
• Elizabeth Ferrari'23 (accounting)

2018-2019

footFit

• Anna Loso'22 (management information systems)
• Allea Scarfone'22 (marketing)
• Alexander Rohring'21 (new media marketing), '22 (MBA)

Paralline

• Evelyn Bilodeau'22 (new media marketing)
• Landon Nolta'22 (management)
• Chandler Simpson(marketing)
• Ryan Stack'22 (accounting)
• Isabella Wojnovich'22 (finance and marketing)

2017-2018

MyBrush

• Lucy Brown'21 (international business and management information systems)
• Emma Chew'21 (international business and management information systems)
• Dominick Crisci'20 (management information systems)
• Madeline Tremblay'21 (management information systems and new media marketing)
• Maggie Sperry'20 (new media marketing)

ZipBox

• Lauryn Mattoon'20 (marketing), '23 (MBA)
• Christopher Bove'21 (management information systems)
• Camille Hawkins
• Jose Elizardi-Colindres

2023-2024

LifestyleLoop

• Brian Tsai'18 (management information systems)
• Samantha Wagner'19 (new media marketing)
• Jackson D. Wikstrom(finance)
• William Win

SHOWCASE

• Matthew Colosi'20 (management information systems)
• Jarod Farchione(management information systems)
• Jessica Morrone'19 (marketing)
• Chelsy Ray'19 (international business), '20 (MBA)

2015-2016

TechHub

• Derek Piotrowski'19 (management information systems), '20 (MBA)
• Maya Patel'19 (finance and management information systems)
• Shayne Mogilski'20 (new media marketing)
• Kelley Rivers

ONYXgo

• Jaden Dominguez'20 (finance and international business), '21 (TIME)
• Samuel Kadezabek'19 (new media marketing), '20 (MBA)
• Max Kitabayashi'16 (marketing)
• Maria Tovar'20 (management information systems and new media marketing)