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

Team Quick Release Window Bars talking with a professor about their DifferenceMaker idea.
Quick Release Window Bars
DifferenceMakers

An affordable device that integrates with permanently mounted security window bars, allowing removal in an emergency.

Quick Release Window Bars is developing an affordable device to integrates with permanently mounted security window bars, allowing for removal in an emergency.
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Team EV Guardian pitching their idea to the audience and judges at the 2024 $50,000 Idea Challenge.
EV Guardian
DifferenceMakers

Working to create a product that enhances safety in EV vehicles and prevents EV fires from starting.

EV Guardian is working to create a product that enhances safety in EV vehicles and prevents EV fires from starting.
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Team RAVI pitching their idea to the audience and judges at the 2024 $50,000 Idea Challenge.
Robot for the Visually Impaired (RAVI)
DifferenceMakers

A “Robot for the Visually Impaired” (RAVI) to help assist in navigating daily life for people with visual impairments.

A “Robot for the Visually Impaired” (RAVI) to help assist in navigating daily life for people with visual impairments.
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Group photo featuring Ariel Shramko, Renin Jose, and Eliot Pirone.
Terminus
DifferenceMakers

Terminus will solve the problem of food insecurity in the USA and beyond by by creating a system of multiple, stackable units that can grow food anywhere.

“Terminus will solve the problem of food insecurity in the USA and beyond.”
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NeuroLyze 2: Team NeuroLyze holding the 2023 Enterprise Bank Contribution to a Healthier Lifestyle Award.
NeuroLyze
DifferenceMakers

Taking preventive actions by alerting athletes when they possibly experienced trauma to the head.

Team NeuroLyze is developing a smart device that can be inserted into helmets to track the magnitude of impact and alert athletes to the need for medical attention.
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