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
TopaCan '16
DifferenceMakers
TopaCan is a product development company whose first product turns any empty can into an environmentally friendly way to dispose of cigarette butts.
DifferenceMaker has various resources that I have leveraged to help me grow my business.
EV SmarT
DifferenceMakers
EV SmarT wants to create a charge sharing platform, where electric vehicle users can open up their home charging stations to other users, extending their ride times past what they are able to obtain today.
Connectedness and efficiency, all for a brighter and more sustainable future, that is the mission of EV Smart.
Brandon Diaz '26
Business
Brandon Diaz turned his lifelong passion for boxing into both a campus club and a sports technology startup, FormMatch AI.
Sometimes I can't believe how much I’ve been able to accomplish in just two years at UMass Lowell.
Turtle Tours
DifferenceMakers
Developing a robot tour guide to solve the problems of understaffing and poor customer service.
TurtleTours is developing a robot tour guide to solve the problems of understaffing and poor customer service.
Tom Stranberg '22
Finance
Tom Stranberg rounded out his business degree with co-ops at the Boston Federal Reserve and Wayfair.
My co-ops were great work experiences that made my education so much more impactful.