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

Prototype of NavLens, which resembles a modern version of eye glasses.
NavLens, Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution
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NavLens will help those who are visually impaired by providing navigation in these unfamiliar areas as well as supplemental audio-visual cues to avoid obstacles.

“NavLens will help those who are visually impaired.”
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Love of the Game '15
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Love of the Game will unite universities and people with physical and cognitive disabilities through sports.

Our non-profit will help engage people of disabilities through fun sports activities.
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BioBubbler '14
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The BioBubbler is made from indigenous material and does not require chemicals or electricity to use. It is a slow sand filtration system that eliminates bacteria in water by absorption, predation, natural death and oxygen depletion.

DifferenceMaker is an extremely valuable resource that helped our idea become more of a reality.
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The can-topping ashtray developed and marketed by Justin Lozier '17 is starting to catch fire.
TopaCan '16
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TopaCan is a product development company whose first product turns any empty can into an environmentally friendly way to dispose of cigarette butts.

DifferenceMaker has various resources that I have leveraged to help me grow my business.
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Indoor Hydroponic System '15
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Indoor Hydroponic System ensures an optimal environment for plants.

Our device will help people grow various types of plants naturally.
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