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

UMass Lowell Photo
ConnectKnee
DifferenceMakers

ConnectKnee strives to accurately track the recovery of a patient with a knee injury, while saving time and money.

ConnectKnee strives to accurately track the recovery of a patient with a knee injury, while saving time and money.
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One of the members Tendren team holding a microphone and speaking in front of blue UMass Lowell backdrop as 2 other members look on.
Tendren
DifferenceMakers

Tendren is a wristband that monitors a patient's vitals while they are in the hospital waiting room.

Tendren is a safety device that will be used in all hospital waiting rooms.
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  UMass Lowell 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’m really happy I took the opportunity to use the resources they have here.
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NeuroLyze 2: Team NeuroLyze holding the 2023 Enterprise Bank Contribution to a Healthier Lifestyle Award.
NeuroLyze
DifferenceMakers

Taking preventive actions by alerting athletes when they possibly experienced trauma to the head.

Team NeuroLyze is developing a smart device that can be inserted into helmets to track the magnitude of impact and alert athletes to the need for medical attention.
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Spread the Love is an online platform that would consist of personalized lesson plans for struggling schools that cannot afford the resources that they need.
Spread the Love
DifferenceMakers

Spread the Love is an online platform that would consist of personalized lesson plans for struggling schools that cannot afford the resources that they need.

DifferenceMaker is helping our team make a difference, right here in Massachusetts.
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