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

UML Green Roofs is attempting to provide secure green outdoor locations for the students at UMass Lowell.
UML Green Roofs
DifferenceMakers

UML Green Roofs is attempting to provide secure green outdoor locations for the students at UMass Lowell.

UML Green Roofs will implement ecologically friendly outdoor study spaces around campus.
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Team TurtleTours posing for a picture with Brian Rist and Holly Lalos after receiving an award..
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.
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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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Treehouse '14
DifferenceMakers

A website and phone application that connects people with plans, events and small businesses nearby.

Treehouse will revolutionize how people and businesses connect and make plans.
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Hylton Carboo, Cassandra Francois and Bernard Tay smile by their T.A.P. poster at a DifferenceMaker event
T.A.P.
DifferenceMakers

Teach A Pal, otherwise known as T.A.P., is a team dedicated to helping student success through peer involvement.

Students deserve a better way to connect and help one another with their studies, and to help them be successful in their college experience.
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