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

From left to right: Steve Tello, Edward Morante, Benjamin Mcevoy (holding the Rist Campus Wide DifferenceMaker award) and Holly Butler
Benji Ball
DifferenceMakers

Benji Ball, the 2019 Capus-wide DifferenceMaker, is a baseball training tool for children that is composed of a bat and ball with the ball having multiple sides, each side showing the different outcome of an at bat.

An inspiration for Benjamin and his motivation to pursue Benji Ball was his background in volunteer work at special needs facilities.
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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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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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BioBubbler '14
DifferenceMakers

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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UML Green Roofs is attempting to provide secure green outdoor locations for the students at UMass Lowell.
UML Green Roofs
DifferenceMakers

UML Green Roofs is attempting to provide secure green outdoor locations for the students at UMass Lowell.

UML Green Roofs will implement ecologically friendly outdoor study spaces around campus.
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