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

Prototype of the final product; a room with the LED lighting on one side of the wall.
Smart Escape
DifferenceMakers

Smart Escape’s mission is to lead people to safety during a fire evacuation.

Smart Escape’s mission is to lead people to safety during a fire evacuation.
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 Michael Dignan, Gillian Inglis and Olivia Reposa present VotED onstage at DifferenceMaker
VotED
DifferenceMakers

VotED works to put the knowledge back into the user’s hands and create a platform that gives all of the information necessary on upcoming candidates and elections.

Just as it is our right to vote, it is our right to know where, how and most importantly, who we are voting for!
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One of the members Minds With Purpose team holding a microphone and speaking in front of blue UMass Lowell backdrop.
Minds with Purpose
DifferenceMakers

Helping bring together all entrepreneurs and creatives alike.

Minds with Purpose will help bring together all entrepreneurs and creatives alike.
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Clot Catch is developing a new design to replace the current inferior vena cava (IVC) clot filters that are currently on the market.
Clot Catch
DifferenceMakers

Clot Catch is developing a new design to replace the current inferior vena cava (IVC) clot filters that are currently on the market.

Clot Catch will eliminate the risks of current filters such as shifting, vessel puncture and strut fracture.
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Bio-Printing with Multimedia Curriculum is a cost effective 3D bio-printer for comprehensive and effective use in teaching the emerging science of 3D bio-printing.
Bio-Printing with Multimedia Curriculum
DifferenceMakers

Bio-Printing with Multimedia Curriculum is a cost effective 3D bio-printer for comprehensive and effective use in teaching the emerging science of 3D bio-printing.

Bio-Printing with Multimedia Curriculum believes they will revolutionize the consumer relationship with companies manufacturing technology as well as revolutionizing STEM education for all.
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