Create your own path. Be the driver of your future career. Combine your passion for creativity or desire to create change with your work in the classroom. Inspire others with your creative work or solutions to real world problems.

What are entrepreneurial and creative endeavors?

Students learn to set their own course by having experiences in early stage start-ups, advancing ideas to solve real world problems, or create artistic, written or performance-based projects. 

DifferenceMakers By the Numbers

  • $5M
    raised by teams
  • 40
    companies formed by teams
  • 11
    Number of teams patents filed or issued

Meet the DifferenceMakers

One of the members StockToMe team holding a microphone and speaking in front of blue UMass Lowell backdrop.
StockToMe
DifferenceMakers

StockToMe is the first stock opinion community, where anybody can post an opinion about a stock.

StockToMe gives people confidence when managing and investing their money.
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Project Starfish is an effective, non-invasive, and cost-effective prosthetic hand for people with disabilities.
Project Starfish
DifferenceMakers

Project Starfish is an effective, non-invasive, and cost-effective prosthetic hand for people with disabilities.

DifferenceMaker has so many resources available to students which has really helped our project.
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Prototype of NavLens, which resembles a modern version of eye glasses.
NavLens, Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution
DifferenceMakers

NavLens will help those who are visually impaired by providing navigation in these unfamiliar areas as well as supplemental audio-visual cues to avoid obstacles.

“NavLens will help those who are visually impaired.”
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Rachel Harrington, Taylor Mellen, and William Bizilj present ECG For Me on stage
ECG For Me
DifferenceMakers

ECG For Me is dedicated to stopping the harsh and fatal effects of an unexpected cardiac event with an integration software for a wearable device that detects underlying heart conditions before they are expected to occur.

Putting the confidence and safety back into sports and activity, that is what ECG For Me stands for.
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DifferenceMaker-Team-WordPro
WordPro '16
DifferenceMakers

WordPro is a vocabulary builder aimed at high school students learning a second language.

We are excited to assist high school students in learning a second language.
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