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.聽
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.
Meet the DifferenceMakers
USe Cart
DifferenceMakers
USe Cart is a smart shopping cart that makes shopping faster and easier for customers, pushing self-checkout to a new level.
Let鈥檚 make shopping enjoyable again.
Grab a Bite '13
DifferenceMakers
Grab a Bite received "Fan Favorite" at the Inaugural DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge, pushing them to the final round where they won the title 鈥淔irst to Market鈥� and were awarded $3,500 by the panel of judges.
Grab a Bite provides customers with a free mobile and web platform that allows users to discover and connect with local restaurants.
NerdOnyx '14
DifferenceMakers
NerdOnyx is a web-based learning tool that will provide articles, videos and other resources to enhance the learning of engineering students and help bridge the gap between the classroom and the industry.
DifferenceMaker was valuable in providing us with a platform by which we could get noticed by the public, and provided feedback to refine and further our idea.
WordPro '16
DifferenceMakers
WordPro is a vocabulary builder aimed at high school students learning a second language.
We are excited to assist high school students in learning a second language.
Mayday '15
DifferenceMakers
Mayday upon activation can reach all emergency contacts in just a tap.
Mayday will give people a piece of mind.