UNH Students Reimagine the Office Park with The Kane Company

This fall, we hosted a very different kind of hackathon/ideathon, where event sponsor and ECenter corporate partner, The Kane Company, presented the student participants with a unique problem to solve: "How would they reimagine the traditional office park for young professionals?" Over the following 24 hours, the students embraced the challenge with gusto and came back together in the final hour to present their impressive and innovative ideas. Students were encouraged to explore not only practical design elements, but also image big, crazy ideas!

ExampleLeft to Right: Chris Hollis, Jessica Nelson,
and The Kane Company's Jacquelyn Grinnell,
Stacey Abel, and Scott Decost.

Grand Prize $2,000 Winning Team

Chris Hollis '22 & Jessica Nelson '21 

Ideas included: Entry signage with waterfall landscape, courtyard connecting building with native plants, man-made pond for summer activities and winter activities, CSA house for local fruits/veggies and a crazy, big idea of an indoor mixed-use ski area with roof-top bar. 

$750 Winning Teams

Jana Bushway '20 & Olivia Bessemer '21

Ideas included: Treehouse offices with conference rooms and decks in wooded areas and an environmentally-focused logo for the park.

TJ Evarts '20, Max Miller '20, & Francesco Mikulis-Borsoi '20

Ideas included: A unified campus connecting buildings with art-filled walkways and parking on the outside, creatively-named buildings, and high impact signage.

We're excited to see which ideas The Kane Company implements in its Portsmouth office park!