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BYU Marriott MISM student Demitri Haddad was recently named a Forbes Under 30 Scholar for 2019 and attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit. There he joined an elite group of one thousand college students from around the country who represent the innovators and leaders of tomorrow.

Currently completing a combined bachelor’s and master’s degree in information systems through BYU Marriott, Haddad feels that his experiences at BYU have helped to refine his character and to expand intellectually.
The Girls Co. hope this win will inspire other women to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
In BYU Marriott's Startup Bootcamp course, about twenty students gather together in a classroom in the Tanner Building and discuss everyday problems and possible solutions.
Six entrepreneurial ideas envisioned by students at BYU were brought to life during a thirty-hour rapid prototyping fest known as Prototype-a-palooza.
BYU Marriott students are running a startup that turns kids' screen time into skill time.
Two BYU Marriott information systems students were honored at the Women Tech Awards for their influence in the technology sector.
A team of four BYU Marriott information systems students took home $1,500 after taking first place in the Wolff BI Competition.
Information systems students took a unique approach in a business case for the NHL's Minnesota Wild. Their findings secured the team third place at the CoMIS Competition.
In 2016, Sam Ballard took home the title of Student Entrepreneur of the Year for his dental lab. This year, the entrepreneurship senior was crowned champion for the second time.
BYU Marriott information systems students dominated at the AIS Student Leadership Conference, taking home one second place and two first place trophies.
Portal (formerly Piero), a student startup developing a revolutionary way to open doors for wheelchair users, took home the $40,000 grand prize and more at the 2018 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge.
Not creative? A BYU Marriott information systems professor and student proved confidence is a greater indicator of performance than your natural creative ability in award-winning paper.
The AIS Club held BYU's first ever service hackathon, a competition for tech-savvy students who are programmed to serve.
Entrepreneurship student Morgan Glessing and his team have a plan to (literally) open the doors of possibilities at every college campus nationwide.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
College students from around the world gathered on BYU's home turf recently to both compete and work together at the annual Association for Information Systems conference.
Fingers flashed across computer keyboards and eyes skimmed screens as more than four hundred students participated in tech competitions as part of the annual AITP conference in St. Louis.
Information systems senior Nick Kerr and finance senior Priscilla Hobbs are featured in Poets & Quants; list of the top undergraduate students in the nation.
Three students in BYU’s No. 2-ranked entrepreneurship program aren’t waiting to apply what they’re learning until after graduation; instead, they have a jump start on their business ventures:
A realization prompted four entrepreneurship majors to create Kudoz, an app similar to Pocket Points that incentivizes phone users to keep their phones locked while driving.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
Students from majors all over campus gather early on a Saturday morning for an eight-hour class on innovating and testing ideas. It’s their first and their last lecture of the semester, and once it’s over, they have five days to apply what they learned by creating a startup business plan to present to the professor the following Thursday.
Students and a faculty member were honored with 2009 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
Christmas festivities are in full swing, and many people—including information system students—are joining in on the holiday cheer in a big way to help children at Primary Children’s Hospital.