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

QBell is a mobile application that improves upon the current nursing call bell system.
QBell
DifferenceMakers

QBell is a mobile application that improves upon the current nursing call bell system.

QBell intends to decrease nurse fatigue all the while increasing patient safety and patient satisfaction.
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WordPro '16
DifferenceMakers

WordPro is a vocabulary builder aimed at high school students learning a second language.

We are excited to assist high school students in learning a second language.
Read More About WordPro 
Breezy is a real-time air quality-monitoring device, which can be tracked through its cell phone application or online website.
Breezy
DifferenceMakers

Breezy is a real-time air quality-monitoring device, which can be tracked through its cell phone application or online website.

DifferenceMaker has been a huge help to me in securing funding and furthering my idea!
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  UMass Lowell Marketing and Management student Nicole Resendes
Nicole Resendes '23
Marketing and Management

A social media marketing co-op at financial firm MFS taught Nicole Resendes what goes into running corporate accounts.

I’m really happy I took the opportunity to use the resources they have here.
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Support Our Students '14
DifferenceMakers

Support our Students (SOS) is a nonprofit organization that addresses the issue of hunger in the UMass Lowell community.

SOS is confident that they will be successful in their endeavors to support and feed students on campus.
Read More About Support Our Students