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

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eNABLE '16
DifferenceMakers

eNABLE is an international organization that makes 3D printed prosthetic hands for children in need.

Thank you for building me a hand.
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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.
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DigiBank is a software solution that aims to rid the world of pocket change.
DigiBank
DifferenceMakers

DigiBank is a software solution that aims to rid the world of pocket change.

The DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge and College-based Competitions were amazing experiences!
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Buddies Without Borders '15
DifferenceMakers

Buddies Without Borders aims to bridge the gap between domestic students and international students.

We want to better connect international and domestic students on campus.
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Maddie Gear '24
Marketing

Maddie Gear鈥檚 favorable first impression of UML steered her to a marketing co-op position at CarGurus.

I鈥檓 so excited to apply the skills that I鈥檝e learned in my business classes.
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