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

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Happy Heart Cart '16
DifferenceMakers

Happy Heart Cart is a program that provides advanced therapeutic and holistic practices to improve patient stays in adult hospitals

We want adult patient hospital stays to be as enjoyable as possible.
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One of the members AMARA team holding a microphone and speaking in front of blue UMass Lowell backdrop.
Amara
DifferenceMakers

Seeking to solve the problem around social media and the mental health crisis.

Amara is seeking to solve the problem around social media and the mental health crisis.
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Team Solar Sails holding the 2023 Commitment to a Sustainable Environment Award.
Solar Sails
DifferenceMakers

Working to develop an efficient solar powered drone.

Solar Sails is working to develop an efficient solar powered drone.
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ZHUUM '14
DifferenceMakers

ZHUUM is a mobile application platform aimed at helping owners across the food service industry drive out inefficiencies and reduce wait times.

Do you dislike waiting for things, especially food at your favorite restaurant? ZHUUM technology is for you.
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Fresh Beets '14
DifferenceMakers

Fresh Beets is a food truck and music venue based out of Lowell, Ma. that unites food, music, education, and revelry into one vehicle of change.

Fresh Beets will feed, educate and excite the citizens of Lowell, a city I am proud to call my home.
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