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
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Software Development + Applied Mathematics
Create a school timetable generator
Generate a clash-free timetable from teachers, subjects, rooms and periods.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- 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
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
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
Artificial Intelligence + Agricultural Technology
Recognise plant diseases from leaf photos
Train a model on public leaf images to tell healthy leaves from diseased ones and test it on your own photos.
- 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
Agri-business and Food Science + Business Studies
Study how a farmer producer group works
Visit a farmers' cooperative or producer company and study what it buys, sells and returns to members.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Political Science + Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Study a political idea through its key thinkers
Trace one idea, such as liberty or equality, through three thinkers and take a position.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Industrial and Manufacturing + Operations, HR and Supply Chain
Analyse and reduce waiting time at the canteen
Time each step of the canteen queue, find the bottleneck and test one improvement.
- 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
Artificial Intelligence + Marketing
Cluster customers into groups
Group customers by spending behaviour with k-means and describe each group in plain words.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Programming + Systems and Cloud
Build a tiny key-value store in Rust
Write a persistent key-value database with get, set and delete and an append-only log.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- 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
Macroeconomics + Public Policy and Governance
Evaluate a government scheme from published data
Choose one scheme and test whether its target indicator improved after it started.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Electronics and Communication + Data
Filter noise from an audio recording
Record speech with a hum, find the hum's frequency and remove it with a digital filter.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data + Marketing
Mine association rules from shopping baskets
Find which products are bought together in a public transaction dataset.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Media and Journalism
Detect fake news headlines with machine learning
Train a classifier on a public dataset and show why it learns the source's style, not the truth.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Operations, HR and Supply Chain + Development and Applied Economics
Study the gig economy through delivery workers' experience
Interview ten delivery or ride-hailing workers about earnings, hours and security.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Pure Mathematics
Render a 3D scene with a ray tracer
Write a program that draws spheres with shadows and reflections by tracing rays.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Earth Science
Forecast daily temperature with time-series methods
Forecast tomorrow's temperature from past data and beat the "same as today" baseline.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Software Development + Entrepreneurship
Build a price comparison tool for textbooks
Let students list and find second-hand textbooks on campus and compare prices.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
EdTech and Study Tools + Data
Analyse quiz data to find what a class misunderstands
Use anonymous quiz results to find which questions and wrong answers reveal misconceptions.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Development and Applied Economics + Sociology
Study remittances and migration in your area
Interview families with a member working elsewhere about why they left and how the money is used.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
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