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

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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2 people in suits and ties presenting on a stage with a large screen behind them with words including: Smart Safety Outlet.
Smart Safety Outlet
DifferenceMakers

This smart outlet device will save children’s lives.

This smart outlet device will save children’s lives.
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2 male students from the MetaLingual team holding an award and posing against a blue UMass Lowell backdrop.
MetaLingual
DifferenceMakers

Learn a new language via a virtual reality platform.

MetaLingual will help people learn a new language via a virtual reality platform.
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TermaGreen '14
DifferenceMakers

TermaGreen is a thermodynamic generator that captures heat and converts it into energy that can be reused.

TermGreen will help sustain the environment long-term.
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Veteran’s QRF '16
DifferenceMakers

Veteran's QRF is a web platform that will simplify the application process for service connected disability benefits.

We want to help Veterans get what they deserve.
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