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Since Nonspec’s success at the Idea Challenge they have gained great publicity in other arenas.  They were recently named one of the top 10 semi-finalists in Entrepreneur® Magazine’s “College Entrepreneur of 2013 Contest”.  In addition, they were invited to attend [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnzNSnxi-g IAPD Plastics Application Design Competition], which was held on October 2, 2013 in Miami, Florida.  Lastly, the team was utilized as a role model by being featured in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwLg4XHrck video] that was shown at all DifferenceMaker™ freshman orientation sessions throughout the summer due to their motivation and high entrepreneurial spirits.
=== <br/> === = DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS Departments and Programs =
== '''Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==
=== Goals of DifferenceMaker™ ===
·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *Introduce all UMass students to creative problem solving, innovation and entrepreneurship ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *Accelerate purpose in each students education ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *Connect current students to alumni experience ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *Encourage a social responsibility ethos &nbsp;
=== DifferenceMaker™ Available Activities ===
Through the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, along with affiliated faculty and other campus programs, the University has introduced a range of activities that help students make a difference in the world.
 
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=== '''DifferenceMaker™ Inaugural Year Statistics''' ===
*24 &nbsp;academic disciplines represented by students in the IdeaChallenge teams
&nbsp;&nbsp;=== '''2015 DifferenceMaker™ Idea Challenge Finalists''' ===
=== = <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker</span> ==== '''2015 DifferenceMaker™ Idea Challenge Finalists<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Hydraulic Walker ($5,000)</span>'''  <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">They have designed and built a walker that utilizes hydraulics, allowing for the legs of the walker to be quickly adjusted, so that it can be used on stairs.</span> *<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Ryan Andrews - Physical Therapy Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Peter Klausmeyer - Physical Therapy Graduate</span>
'''Campus==== <span style="font-Wide DifferenceMaker™'''family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Significant Social Impact</span> ====
'''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">1st Place -&nbsp;</span>''''''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Love of the Game ($74,000)</span>'''
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Love of the Game is a community outreach program aiming to integrate universities and people with physical and cognitive disabilities through sports.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Jessica Dion - Exercise Physiology '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Dylan Doucette - Exercise Physiology '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Lucas Parsons - Exercise Physiology '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Rachel Silk - Business Marketing '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Daniel Schmith - Business Entrepreneurship '18</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Jennie Pisarik - Exercise Physiology '16</span>
'''Significant Social Impact<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place - Buddies Without Borders ($2,500)</span>'''
'''1st Place <span style="font- $4family:verdana,000'''geneva,sans-serif;">Buddies without Borders aims to bridge the gap between domestic students and international students starting with an in-person pair up then followed by a comprehensive website that allows members to define their profiles and micro-blog by text, photo, and video sharing.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Tugba Arsava - Community Social Psychology Graduate</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Burhan Colak - Civil Engineering Graduate</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Katherine Cox - Psychology '18</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Madeline Ormazza - Business '17</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Shashank Raghuveer - Computer Science Graduate</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fang Zhang - Chemistry Graduate</span>
==== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Contribution to a Healthier Lifestyle</span> ====
&nbsp'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st Place - Playable Therapy ($4,000)</span>'''
'''2nd Place <span style="font- $2family:verdana,000''geneva,sans-serif;">This project's goal is to create a platform of exercises and games that, with the Microsoft Kinect, will allow for motion tracking of a physical therapy (PT) patient during their exercise routine at home.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Suhaib Alfageeh - Computer Science '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Lucas Brown - English and Math '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Chelsea Hayes - Business '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Damir Ismagilove - Math '16</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Anthony Pitaro - Exercise Physiology '15</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Mark Mcgrotty - Computer Science '16</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place - Solar Electric Vehicles ($2,500)</span>'''
&nbsp<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">This team is designing a series of low speed and high efficiency commuter vehicles that utilize hub motor technology to allow people to travel using purely the energy of the sun.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Suhaib Alfageeh - Computer Science '16</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Chukwuma Azubuine - Entrepreneurship Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Richard Asirifi - Electrical Engineering '16</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Anas Dahany - Electrical Engineering 'Sustainable Environment15</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">David Jenkins - Mechanical Engineering '15</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Oliver Kayego - Electrical Engineering '17</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Chris Leger - Electrical Engineering '15</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Jared Mrvos - Computer Engineering '17</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Charles Reid - Mechanical Engineering '15</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Kenneth Sanders - Computer Science '18</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Mukhammaddin Zinaddinov - Electrical Engineering '18</span>
==== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Innovative Technology Solution</span> ====
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st Place - Masela Dentures ($4,000)</span>'''
'''Innovative Technology'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Their project aims to develop a fully 3D printable denture system as an alternative solution to expensive dentures manufactured using traditional casting and milling methods.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Cormac Hondros-McCarthy - Plastics Engineering '''1st Place 15</span>*<span style="font- $4family:verdana,000''' '''OTTOnomous''geneva,sans-serif;">Casey McRae - Plastics Engineering '15</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place -&nbsp;</span>''''''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor (</span>''''''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">$2,500)</span>'''
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">They created a novel and revolutionary sports equipment construction centered around an innovative shear-thickening material</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Elizabeth Kender - Plastics Engineering '16</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Laura Kender - Plastics Engineering '16</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Stephen Kender - Plastics Engineering 'First to Market'''18</span>
'''1st Place ==== <span style="font- $4family:verdana,000'''geneva,sans-serif;">First to Market</span> ====
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st Place - Mayday ($4,000)</span>'''
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">This project aims to develop a wearable device connected via Bluetooth technology to a mobile phone, that, when activated, sends emergency alert signals to a list of emergency contacts.</span>
'''2nd Place *<span style="font- $2family:verdana,000'''geneva,sans-serif;">Cibhi SelVan- &nbsp;Business Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Alessandro Agnello- &nbsp;Computer Science PhD</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place -&nbsp;</span>''''''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Word Builder (</span>''''''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">$2,500)</span>'''
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Word Builder is an interactive toy designed to help children build the foundations of reading at an early age.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Sergio Coronado - Computer Engineering '''2nd Place 16</span>*<span style="font- $2family:verdana,000''geneva,sans-serif;">Ian Copithorne - Computer Engineering '16</span>
==== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Honorable Mention</span> ====
<div>'''Honorable Mention DifferenceMaker™'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Low-Income Community Homework Center ($1,500)</divspan>'''$1000'''
&nbsp<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Their goal is to open a homework center for students from low-income families in a poverty stricken town/city such as Lawrence, Massachusetts.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Arnaldo Rivera - Psychology '15</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Hector Rivera &nbsp;- Psychology '15</span>
==== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fan Favorite</span> ====
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Indoor Hydroponic System ($2,500)</span>'''
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Their project is a hydroponic garden that is equipped with an environment monitoring system that ensures optimal growing conditions for plants and requires little to no maintenance.</span>
'''Fan Favorite'''*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Rapheeporn Aungaphinant - Business Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Katherine Cain - Business Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Tucker Holladay - Business Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Shu-Wei Hsu - Business Graduate</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Alima Shamuratova - Business Graduate</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;" '''$1,000&nbsp;'''&lt;/span&gt;
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