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

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Solar Electric Vehicles '15
DifferenceMakers

Solar Electric Vehicles allow people to travel by the energy of the sun.

We want to change the future of the environment.
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Veteran’s QRF '16
DifferenceMakers

Veteran's QRF is a web platform that will simplify the application process for service connected disability benefits.

We want to help Veterans get what they deserve.
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Dawson Durgin, team leader for Votecational, dressed in a shirt and tie, holding a microphone and looking at the (unseen) audience.
Votecational
DifferenceMakers

Votecational is a non-bias informational platform, which allows voters to receive crucial information regarding elections.

Votecational is a non-bias informational platform, which allows voters to receive crucial information regarding elections.
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Team CryptoPigeon smiling with their DifferenceMaker idea poster.
CryptoPigeon
DifferenceMakers

Developing an independent messaging service and leveraging a corresponding new cryptocurrency.

CryptoPigeon is developing a messaging service not controlled by any one single entity and leveraging a corresponding new cryptocurrency.
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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.
Read More About QBell