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.聽

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
DifferenceMakers

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.

鈥淣avLens will help those who are visually impaired.鈥
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The ETRALock team onstage pitching to DifferenceMaker judges
ETRALock
DifferenceMakers

ETRALock is a team focused on helping individuals with physical limitations, get into their homes using smart locks with simple proximity activation.

Individuals with certain motor skill impairments such as arthritis, Parkinson鈥檚, and ALS find it difficult and painful when entering or leaving their own homes due to the motions necessary to complete the task.
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  51视频 Marketing and Management student Nicole Resendes
Nicole Resendes '23
Marketing and Management

A social media marketing co-op at financial firm MFS taught Nicole Resendes what goes into running corporate accounts.

I鈥檓 really happy I took the opportunity to use the resources they have here.
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Hoppers
DifferenceMakers

Hoppers was designed to help children build social skills and problem solving skills.

Hoppers was designed to help children build social skills and problem solving skills.
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Healthy Habits '13
DifferenceMakers

At the DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge, Healthy Habits won first place in the category 鈥淪ignificant Social Impact,鈥 and was awarded $3,500 to further implement their idea.

Healthy Habits teaches fitness and well-being to young children so they do not grow up to be unhealthy, overweight or obese.
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