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
606 projects · 13 streams · every class
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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
History · Oral History
Record the oral history of an elder in your family
Interview a grandparent or neighbour about one period of their life and set their story against the wider history.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data · Data Analytics
Explore a dataset and tell its story
Pick a public dataset, ask five questions of it and answer each with a chart.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Sociology · Work
Study who does the housework
Survey how many hours men, women, boys and girls in households spend on unpaid work.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming · Python
Automate a boring task with a script
Write a script that renames and sorts a messy folder of files by type and date.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Automobile Engineering + Finance and Banking
Compare electric and petrol vehicle running costs
Build a five-year cost and emissions comparison for an electric and a petrol two-wheeler.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
History · Primary Sources
Create a digital archive of old family photographs
Scan and catalogue 30 old photographs with dates, places and people identified.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Robotics, IoT and Hardware + Graphic and UI/UX Design
Design and 3D print a useful object
Design a phone stand or cable holder in free CAD software and improve it over three versions.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- 250–500
Communication + Languages and Linguistics
Study the language of text messages
Collect 100 donated messages and classify abbreviations, emoji and language mixing.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Fashion and Craft · Craft
Document a local craft and its makers
Photograph and describe each step of a craft and the economics of making it.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Microeconomics · Market Studies
Study the cost of living for a student in your city
Build a student price index from a basket of 20 items and compare two areas or two years.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Languages and Linguistics · Linguistics
Study the linguistic landscape of a market street
Photograph every sign on one street and count which languages and scripts appear.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming · Java
Simulate a bank account system
Model accounts, deposits and withdrawals with classes, and keep a transaction history.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming · C
Build a student marks manager in C
Store student records in a file, calculate totals and grades, and print a ranked report.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Graphic and UI/UX Design + EdTech and Study Tools
Design a board game
Invent a board game, playtest it five times and refine the rules and artwork.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Under 250
Photography, Film and Animation + EdTech and Study Tools
Make an explainer video for a hard topic
Explain one concept from your syllabus in three minutes with drawings and narration.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Programming + Psychology
Build a reaction-time tester and analyse the results
Write a program that measures reaction time, then use it to compare conditions such as time of day.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
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