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.
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.
Meet the DifferenceMakers
Nick Jarek '23
Digital Media
A summer co-op job with the DifferenceMaker program gave Nick Jarek a wider lens on his future career.
I love it here. The people I’ve met are so interested in helping me succeed.
Tendren
DifferenceMakers
Tendren is a wristband that monitors a patient's vitals while they are in the hospital waiting room.
Tendren is a safety device that will be used in all hospital waiting rooms.
Iron Legion
DifferenceMakers
Iron Legion, the 2018 Campus-wide DifferenceMaker, is a team aiming to expand the effective use of drone technology in emergency response, particularly with police departments.
One of the problems we see is that police have a lack of situational awareness when responding to critical incidents.
Quick Release Window Bars
DifferenceMakers
An affordable device that integrates with permanently mounted security window bars, allowing removal in an emergency.
Quick Release Window Bars is developing an affordable device to integrates with permanently mounted security window bars, allowing for removal in an emergency.
Mygrow Fabrix
DifferenceMakers
A functional textile fabric company, which is eco-friendly and will assist in agricultural and horticultural means.
Mygrow Fabrix is develop a multi-functional bio-composite textile vessel that improves growth and increases yield.