Photography, Film and Animation · Animation
Make a stop-motion animation
Animate clay, paper or toys frame by frame into a 30-second story.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
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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
Programming · Python
Build a Snake game
Program the classic Snake with scoring, growing length and game over.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Biology · Microbiology
Grow bacteria from everyday surfaces
Swab phones, door handles and washed hands onto agar and compare the colonies that grow.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- 250–500
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
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
Crops, Soil and Horticulture · Soil Studies
Test the soil of three fields or gardens
Compare soil texture, pH, organic matter and drainage at three sites and suggest suitable crops.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
Civil Engineering · Structural Analysis
Compare the strength of beam cross-sections
Fold the same sheet of card into flat, tube, box and I shapes and measure how much each bends.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
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
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
Physics · Optics
Measure the speed of light with a chocolate bar
Find the wavelength of microwaves from melt spots on chocolate, then calculate the speed of light.
- Easy
- 1–3 hours
- Under 250
Psychology · Experiments
Test the Stroop effect
Time how long people take to name ink colours when the word says a different colour.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Physics · Modern Physics
Measure Planck's constant with LEDs
Find the turn-on voltage of LEDs of different colours and get Planck's constant from the slope.
- Advanced
- 2–7 days
- 250–500
Civil Engineering + Physics
Build and load-test a spaghetti bridge
Design a truss bridge from dry spaghetti and glue, then load it until it fails and compute its efficiency.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
Behavioural Economics · Experiments
Run the ultimatum game with classmates
Let proposers split ten tokens and responders accept or reject, and compare the results with theory.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Media and Journalism · Media Analysis
Analyse how two newspapers cover the same story
Compare headlines, sources quoted and language in two papers' coverage of one event over a week.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Chemistry + Nutrition and Food
Measure the vitamin C in fruit juices
Titrate juices with iodine and starch to compare how much vitamin C each contains.
- Intermediate
- 1 day
- Under 250
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
Cybersecurity + Pure Mathematics
Implement classic ciphers and break them
Write Caesar and substitution ciphers, then crack them with frequency analysis.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Literature and English · Literary Analysis
Write a critical appreciation of a short story
Analyse the plot, character, setting, narration and theme of one short story.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Physics · Dynamics
Launch a water rocket and predict its range
Build a bottle rocket and find the water volume and angle that give the longest flight.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- 250–500
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
Physics · Optics
Measure the refractive index of water with a laser pointer
Trace a laser beam entering water at several angles and get the refractive index from Snell's law.
- Intermediate
- 1–3 hours
- Under 250
Statistics and Probability · Probability
Estimate pi by dropping needles
Drop sticks on ruled paper, count how many cross a line and get an estimate of pi.
- Easy
- 1–3 hours
- Free
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