On June 12, 2025, Plan NH honored our 2025 scholarship recipients and announced our 2025 Merit Awards of Excellence winners.
2025 Merit Awards of Excellence Program
This year, the Plan NH Merit Awards Committee chose the following 4 projects to be recognized with a Merit Award of Excellence:
- Allenstown Community School – Allenstown, NH
- Jackson Square Affordable Housing – Nashua, NH
- Penacook Community Center – Concord, NH
- Souhegan River Trail – Merrimack, NH
Read more about each project here.
Merit Award winners represent outstanding projects that incorporate good planning, design, and/or development and have had a positive impact on their respective communities. Each year, a distinguished jury of industry professionals reviews each nomination and determines those that are truly outstanding and deserving of recognition. The 2025 winners were announced at the Plan NH Awards Evening on June 12 at The Hotel Concord alongside the Plan NH 2025 Scholarship & Fellowship recipients.
The 2025 Awardees will join a long list of outstanding projects including the following 2024 projects: Brick Market, located in Portsmouth, NH; Capitol Shopping Center, located in Concord, NH; Mill Girl Stair Improvements, located in Manchester, NH; Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, located in Nashua, NH; and The Livery, located in Sunapee, NH.
In 2023, Merit Awards of Excellence were awarded to the following projects: Berlin Riverwalk, located in Berlin, NH; Harmony Place, located in Durham, NH; Makers Mill, a Community Makerspace & Vocation Hub, located in Wolfeboro, NH; Pope Memorial Library Addition & Renovations, located in North Conway, NH; Ruth Lewin Griffin Place, located in Portsmouth, NH; and Rethinking Pleasant Street, located in Claremont, NH.
2025 Scholarship & Fellowship Program
This year, the Plan NH Scholarship & Fellowship Committee, in partnership with the NH Charitable Foundation, awarded a total of $31,000 to the following 14 Scholarship and Fellowship Recipients:
Alfred T. Granger Student Art Trust Fund Recipients
- Willow Baribault – Art/Fine Arts, University of New Hampshire
- Elizabeth Bodnar – Architecture, Drexel University
- Hannah Fox – Architecture, Roger Williams University
- Kayla Garriepy – Art Therapy, Springfield College
- Maisie Hilliard – Art Education, Plymouth State University
- Suprina Kabadkar – Fine Arts / Illustration, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Kei Kan – Architecture / Emerging Technologies, Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Tyler McPhail – 3D Animation, Southern New Hampshire University
- Elizabeth Petrov – Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire
- Io Phillips – Studio Arts, Framingham State University
Paul and Ann Harvey Scholarship Fund Recipients
- Royce Andrews – Civil Engineering, Cornell University
- Zachary Wyborney – Architecture, Wheaton College
Plan New Hampshire Fellowship Fund Recipients
- Ryan Hilliard – Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire
- Beckley Wooster – Conservation Biology, St. Lawrence University
The Plan NH Scholarship and Fellowship Program recognizes and honors outstanding students who call New Hampshire home and who are studying a field that supports the Plan NH mission to foster excellence in planning, design and/or development of New Hampshire’s built environment. These students truly represent the future of design, architecture, engineering, and construction in the Granite State.
These students were acknowledged alongside the Merit Awards of Excellence winners during the Plan NH Awards Evening on June 12, 2025. If you or your company are interested in contributing to the Plan NH Fellowship Fund, we encourage you to contact us at 603-452-PLAN, or email: tiffany@plannh.org.
Press Release available here.
Special thank you to Kaplan Performance Partners/Dale Carnegie, The Hotel Concord, Nathan Wechsler & Company, Milestone Construction, Bonnette, Page & Stone, Triumph Modular, Stibler Associates, and Harvey Construction for sponsoring the 2025 Plan NH Awards Evening.
