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

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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Playable Therapy '15
DifferenceMakers

Playable Therapy connects video games and physical therapy.

Our platform will help both PTs and patients.
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Alexander Hoefer, Biomedical Engineering student, and Sanskriti Sharma, Computer Engineering side by side in combined pictures smiling for the camera
Wonder Wheel
DifferenceMakers

Wonder Wheel is a novel device that will aid wheel chair users.

Wonder Wheel is a novel device that will aid wheel chair users.
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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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One of the members USuccess team holding a microphone and speaking in front of blue UMass Lowell backdrop while two other members watch.
USuccess
DifferenceMakers

Create more financial stability and less frustration about finances by educating people on how to best use their money.

USuccess will help prevent student debt.
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