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

QBell is a mobile application that improves upon the current nursing call bell system.
QBell
DifferenceMakers

QBell is a mobile application that improves upon the current nursing call bell system.

QBell intends to decrease nurse fatigue all the while increasing patient safety and patient satisfaction.
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Nicholas Norcross and Kevin Seery onstage with Steve Tello, Holly Butler and their “Significant Social Impact” award at the 2018 DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge, a $4,500 prize they are using to develop their ClassRoots application platform
ClassRoots
DifferenceMakers

ClassRoots is an organization striving to facilitate connections between students in the classroom and to share this with their instructors.

Now more than ever, having a college education is extremely important. And with the rising cost of college tuition, academic success is very important.
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Operation250 is an online platform consisting of an educational website, engaging videos and a large social media presence, focused on educating both young adolescents, parents and educators on how to prevent radical extremist recruitment.
Operation250
DifferenceMakers

Operation250 is an online platform consisting of an educational website, engaging videos and a large social media presence, focused on educating both young adolescents, parents and educators on how to prevent radical extremist recruitment.

Operation250 aims to give students a better understanding about terrorism and online safety.
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Security Top '16
DifferenceMakers

Security Top is a reusable bottle cap designed for the purpose of increasing the prevention of contaminates entering a bottled beverage.

Our goal is to protect people from contaminated drinks.
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Team Smart Azan holding the 2023 Jack M. Wilson First to Market Award.
Smart Azan
DifferenceMakers

App that keeps track and notifies Muslims when it is time to pray.

Smart Azan is an app that keeps track and notifies Muslims when it is time to pray.
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