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

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Word Builder '15
DifferenceMakers

Word Builder is a fun toy that helps build a reading foundation for children.

Word Builder is a hands on activity that will help children read and correctly pronounce words in a fun way.
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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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Team Smart Azan holding the 2023 Jack M. Wilson First to Market Award.
Smart Azan
DifferenceMakers

App that keeps track and notifies Muslims when it is time to pray.

Smart Azan is an app that keeps track and notifies Muslims when it is time to pray.
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Sarvesh Handa standing with his project's prototype and idea plan model.
MissionHydro
DifferenceMakers

An innovative way to harness and use hydrogen energy.

An innovative way to harness and use hydrogen energy.
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Cyborg is a hybrid, cost effective, musical instrument, which has the ability to transform any object into a touch sensitive musical instrument.
Cyborg
DifferenceMakers

Cyborg is a hybrid, cost effective, musical instrument, which has the ability to transform any object into a touch sensitive musical instrument.

Cyborg attempts to revolutionize the music industry, which has been stalled by the lack of new ways to produce music.
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