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

Cameron Edmonds, Matthew Pelland and Jackson Seal pose with their honourable mention prize for SASS at the DifferenceMaker Idea Challenge
SASS
DifferenceMakers

SASS, also known as Solo-Adventurer Safety System, provides reliable GPS tracking and communication with a timed checking system to make sure the adventurer is always safe.

What we aim to address is a safety issue that thousands of outdoor enthusiasts face every day.
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RE-VIVE team members Derek Jamieson, Nicholas Lydon and Alison Michell pose with their Honorable Mention award and Holly Butler
RE-VIVE
DifferenceMakers

RE-VIVE aims to lessen the fatalities associated with the opioid epidemic. The product consists of a wearable auto-injection system to administer Naloxone to those suffering from a drug overdose.

RE-VIVE will be the first responder for an immediate resolution to an incoming overdose.
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TermaGreen '14
DifferenceMakers

TermaGreen is a thermodynamic generator that captures heat and converts it into energy that can be reused.

TermGreen will help sustain the environment long-term.
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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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AFED: Autonomous Foot Exercising Device
DifferenceMakers

AFED solves foot pain while also correcting posture.

AFED solves foot pain while also correcting posture.
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