Behavioural Economics · Nudges
Design a nudge and measure its effect
Change one small thing, such as a sign or the placement of a bin, and measure whether behaviour changes.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Under 250
606 projects · 13 streams · every class
Startup Projects 67
Ideas you can test with real customers and numbers before you build anything big.
67 projects
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
Marketing · Consumer Behaviour
Study why students pick one food delivery app over another
Survey 50 classmates and find what really drives their choice of food delivery app.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Biomedical Engineering + Health Technology
Design a walking aid with obstacle alerts
Add distance sensing and vibration feedback to a cane, designed with advice from a visually impaired user.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 1,000–2,500
Legal and Constitutional Studies · Human Rights
Survey awareness of legal rights among students
Test what students know about their basic rights and produce a clear guide.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Graphic and UI/UX Design · Graphic Design
Design a poster series for a social issue
Make three posters on one issue that work as a set and can be read from five metres.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
Entrepreneurship · Startup Concepts
Design a startup idea and test it with real customers
Find a real problem, build the smallest possible version of a solution and see if anyone wants it.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 250–500
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
Architecture and Interior Design · Interior Design
Design your dream room to scale
Measure a real room, draw it to scale and build a model of a redesigned layout.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- 250–500
Marketing + Microeconomics
Test how price affects demand at a school stall
Sell the same snack at three prices on three days and plot the demand curve.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- 250–500
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
Health Technology + Software Development
Design an app that reminds elders to take medicine
Build a simple reminder app with large text and test it with an older relative.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Environmental Science · Waste Management
Audit your school's waste for a week
Sort and weigh one week of school waste by type and propose how to cut the largest share.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Under 250
Entrepreneurship · Business Plans
Write a business plan for a school stationery shop
Plan a small campus shop from customer survey to break-even point.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Marketing + Graphic and UI/UX Design
Analyse the brand identity of two competing companies
Compare two rival brands on logo, tone, pricing, audience and advertising, and judge which is clearer.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Marketing · Digital Marketing
Run a digital marketing campaign for a school event
Plan, run and measure an online campaign for a real school or college event.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Graphic and UI/UX Design + Industrial and Manufacturing
Design a product for a specific user
Observe one person's daily difficulty and design, model and test an object that solves it.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 250–500
Entrepreneurship + Mechanical Engineering
Design a business around a science fair invention
Take a working model you have built and work out who would buy it, at what price and at what cost.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Robotics, IoT and Hardware + Environmental Science
Monitor air quality with a low-cost sensor
Build a particulate monitor, log readings and compare them with the nearest official station.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- 1,000–2,500
Operations, HR and Supply Chain · Operations
Improve stock management in a small shop
Record a shop's sales for two weeks, classify items and set reorder levels.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Marketing · Market Research
Do market research for a new product idea
Test a product concept with 60 people and decide whether it is worth launching.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data + Operations, HR and Supply Chain
Build a sales dashboard
Turn a public retail dataset into a one-page dashboard that answers a manager's questions.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Teaching and Learning · Special Education
Make learning material for a child with a learning difficulty
Adapt one lesson for a learner with dyslexia, low vision or attention difficulties, guided by a special educator.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 250–500
Entrepreneurship · Pitching
Prepare and deliver an investor pitch
Build a ten-slide pitch for a business idea and present it to a panel in five minutes.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
0 to compare
Compare