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

DigiBank is a software solution that aims to rid the world of pocket change.
DigiBank
DifferenceMakers

DigiBank is a software solution that aims to rid the world of pocket change.

The DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge and College-based Competitions were amazing experiences!
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Indoor Hydroponic System '15
DifferenceMakers

Indoor Hydroponic System ensures an optimal environment for plants.

Our device will help people grow various types of plants naturally.
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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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the team behind InvisaWear
invisaWear
DifferenceMakers

invisaWear is a discrete wearable device that connects to a smart phone that sends an emergency alert to predetermined contacts when the wearer is in need.

We want to make people feel safe at all times.
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Lowell Sprouts '13
DifferenceMakers

Lowell Sprouts is an organization that utilizes school gardens as a way to educate middle school children about the importance of sustainable, organic agriculture. Lowell Sprouts entered the DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge and won first place in the “Sustainable Environment” category, a $3,500 award.

Lowell Sprouts utilizes school gardens as a way to educate middle school children about the importance of sustainable, organic agriculture.
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