Physics + Programming
Simulate projectile motion with air drag in Python
Plot real trajectories with air resistance and compare them with the textbook parabola.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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Simulation ideas across every stream, with the class, cost, time and materials for each.
25 projects
Statistics and Probability · Probability
Test the birthday paradox
Calculate and test the chance that two people in a group share a birthday.
- Easy
- 1–3 hours
- Free
Applied Mathematics + Sociology
Model the spread of a rumour
Build a logistic model of how a rumour spreads through a school and test it with a class game.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech · Blockchain
Build a simple blockchain
Implement blocks, hashes, proof of work and validation to see how a chain resists tampering.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Computer Engineering + Systems and Cloud
Design a simple processor in a logic simulator
Build an 8-bit processor with an ALU, registers and a control unit, and run a small program on it.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- Free
Applied Mathematics + Civil Engineering
Model traffic flow with cellular automata
Simulate cars on a ring road and show how jams appear from nothing above a critical density.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Robotics, IoT and Hardware + Mechanical Engineering
Design a mechanical part in CAD and simulate its stress
Model a bracket, apply a load in simulation and redesign it to be lighter and still strong.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Aerospace Engineering + Astronomy and Space
Simulate a satellite orbit
Integrate Newton's law of gravity to draw circular, elliptical and escape orbits.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Chemical Engineering · Reaction Engineering
Optimise a reaction with a simple reactor model
Simulate batch and continuous reactors for a first-order reaction and compare conversion.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Programming + Pure Mathematics
Write classic sorting algorithms and race them
Implement bubble, insertion, merge and quick sort and plot how their running time grows.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Automobile Engineering + Physics
Model a car suspension
Simulate a quarter-car model over a bump and tune the damper for comfort.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Biology · Evolution
Model natural selection with coloured beads
Play predator on beads scattered on patterned cloth and watch the population shift over generations.
- Easy
- 1–3 hours
- Under 250
Public Health and Epidemiology + Statistics and Probability
Model a disease outbreak with dice
Play an infection game with dice in class and plot the epidemic curve.
- Easy
- 1 day
- Under 250
Applied Mathematics · Simulation
Simulate a queue at a bank or canteen
Measure real arrival and service times and simulate how the queue changes with one more counter.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Physics
Create a 2D physics sandbox
Simulate bouncing balls with gravity, friction and collisions in the browser.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Public Health and Epidemiology + Applied Mathematics
Build a model of how vaccines create herd immunity
Simulate an infection on a grid with different shares of immune people and find the protecting threshold.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Applied Mathematics + Programming
Solve the travelling salesman problem for your city
Find a short route through 15 places in your city and compare exact and heuristic methods.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Macroeconomics · International Economics
Model trade between two countries with a classroom game
Give teams different resources, let them produce and trade, and show the gains from specialisation.
- Easy
- 1 day
- Under 250
Artificial Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning
Train an agent to play a simple game
Implement Q-learning for a grid world and watch the agent learn the shortest path.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Public Health and Epidemiology
Simulate the spread of an epidemic
Model susceptible, infected and recovered people and see how vaccination and distancing change the curve.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud · Operating Systems
Simulate CPU scheduling algorithms
Simulate first-come-first-served, shortest-job-first and round robin and compare waiting times.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Physics
Simulate a quantum circuit
Write a small simulator for one and two qubits and reproduce a Bell state.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Robotics, IoT and Hardware · Drones
Fly a programmed path with a small drone in simulation
Program a simulated drone to take off, fly a square and land, then add obstacle avoidance.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Computer Engineering · Digital Logic
Implement a traffic light controller on an FPGA or simulator
Design a four-way junction controller as a finite state machine and simulate it.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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