Microeconomics · Demand and Supply
Track vegetable prices and explain why they change
Record the prices of five vegetables twice a week for a month and explain each rise and fall.
- Easy
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Portfolio projects 145
Projects worth putting on a resume, a GitHub profile or a design portfolio.
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Graphic and UI/UX Design
Build a 2D platformer game
Make a platform game with three levels, enemies, collectables and a menu.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Political Science · Elections
Analyse election results in your constituency
Use official results from three elections to chart turnout, vote share and margins.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Public Policy and Governance + Software Development
Build a civic-tech prototype to report local problems
Build a site where residents mark potholes or broken lights on a map and track their status.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Software Development · APIs
Build a weather app using a public API
Show current weather and a five-day forecast for any city using a free weather API.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning
Classify handwritten digits with a neural network
Train a small neural network on the MNIST digits and study where it goes wrong.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Public Health and Epidemiology · Health Surveys
Survey the health habits of your class
Collect anonymous data on sleep, breakfast, exercise, water and screen time and report the patterns.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Statistics and Probability
Predict house prices with linear regression
Use a public housing dataset to predict price from size, rooms and location.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Photography, Film and Animation + Media and Journalism
Shoot a photo essay on your neighbourhood
Tell one story about a place in 12 photographs with captions.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Nutrition and Food · Diet Studies
Record and analyse your diet for a week
Keep a food diary for seven days and compare your intake with a balanced plate.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Software Development · Developer Tools
Contribute a fix to an open-source project
Find a beginner-friendly issue, fix it and get your pull request merged.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Biology + Data
Compare a DNA sequence across species with free tools
Download one gene from six species, align the sequences and build an evolutionary tree.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · NLP
Detect spam messages with a text classifier
Train a model on a public SMS dataset to separate spam from normal messages.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Literature and English + Data
Analyse word use in a novel with a computer
Count words and character mentions in a public-domain novel and see what the numbers reveal.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Graphic and UI/UX Design + Marketing
Create a brand identity for a local business
Design a logo, colours, type and three applications for a real shop or café.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Software Development · Frontend
Make a personal portfolio website
Design and publish a fast, mobile-friendly site that shows who you are and what you have built.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Cybersecurity · Web Security
Find and fix vulnerabilities in a deliberately weak web app
Run a training app on your own computer, find the classic flaws, then write the fixed code.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Development and Applied Economics · Econometrics
Test whether education and earnings are related
Use a public survey dataset to estimate how much an extra year of schooling relates to earnings.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Environmental Science · Climate
Calculate your household's carbon footprint
Collect a month of electricity, fuel, travel and food data and convert it into kilograms of carbon dioxide.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Applied Mathematics + Finance and Banking
Study compound interest and inflation
Model how savings grow with interest and how inflation changes their real value.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Graphic and UI/UX Design + Software Development
Redesign an app you use every day
Find real problems in an app through user tests, redesign one flow and prove your version is better.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data · Databases
Design a database for a hostel or library
Model a real system as tables, normalise it and answer ten questions with SQL.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Macroeconomics · Growth
Analyse your country's growth over 30 years
Chart GDP growth, sector shares and income per person, and explain three turning points.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Macroeconomics · Inflation
Build your own inflation index
Price a household basket every month for three months and compare your inflation rate with the official figure.
- Intermediate
- 1–3 months
- Free
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