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

CAT Mat team members Michelle Mailloux and Katherine Muise pose with Holly Butler and their Honorable Mention award
Ambulatory Innovations
DifferenceMakers

Ambulatory Innovations brings the outdoors in, with a mat that will allow physical therapists to treat their patients鈥 deficits throughout the body, from the musculoskeletal system to sensory systems.

We bring the outdoors inside, to get you back outside!
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One of the members HOPPERS team holding a microphone and speaking in front of blue 小猪视频 backdrop.
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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2 male students from the MetaLingual team holding an award and posing against a blue 小猪视频 backdrop.
MetaLingual
DifferenceMakers

Learn a new language via a virtual reality platform.

MetaLingual will help people learn a new language via a virtual reality platform.
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OTTOnomous Technology '14
DifferenceMakers

OTTOnomous Technology is a novel solution for replacing camshafts in car engines with electro-mechanical actuators.

OTTOnomous Technology will revolutionize the automobile engine industry.
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Clot Catch is developing a new design to replace the current inferior vena cava (IVC) clot filters that are currently on the market.
Clot Catch
DifferenceMakers

Clot Catch is developing a new design to replace the current inferior vena cava (IVC) clot filters that are currently on the market.

Clot Catch will eliminate the risks of current filters such as shifting, vessel puncture and strut fracture.
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