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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Games, Graphics and New Tech + Graphic and UI/UX Design
Build a 2D platformer game
Make a platform game with three levels, enemies, collectables and a menu.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Political Science · Elections
Analyse election results in your constituency
Use official results from three elections to chart turnout, vote share and margins.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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
Pure Mathematics + Cybersecurity
Break a secret with number theory: how RSA works
Encrypt and decrypt a message with small primes by hand, then in code, and see why large primes matter.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
EdTech and Study Tools · Educational Games
Test whether a game improves learning
Design a card or board game for one topic and test whether players learn more than from a worksheet.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Under 250
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
Music, Theatre and Writing + Programming
Create generative art with code
Write programs that draw a different artwork every time they run and curate a series of ten.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning
Classify handwritten digits with a neural network
Train a small neural network on the MNIST digits and study where it goes wrong.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Programming · Java
Build a library management system
Manage books, members, issue and return with fines, backed by a database.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
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
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
Software Development · Developer Tools
Contribute a fix to an open-source project
Find a beginner-friendly issue, fix it and get your pull request merged.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Biology + Data
Compare a DNA sequence across species with free tools
Download one gene from six species, align the sequences and build an evolutionary tree.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · NLP
Detect spam messages with a text classifier
Train a model on a public SMS dataset to separate spam from normal messages.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
EdTech and Study Tools + Software Development
Build a flashcard app with spaced repetition
Make a web app that shows each card again just before you would forget it.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Literature and English + Data
Analyse word use in a novel with a computer
Count words and character mentions in a public-domain novel and see what the numbers reveal.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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
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
Cybersecurity · Web Security
Find and fix vulnerabilities in a deliberately weak web app
Run a training app on your own computer, find the classic flaws, then write the fixed code.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- 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
Development and Applied Economics · Econometrics
Test whether education and earnings are related
Use a public survey dataset to estimate how much an extra year of schooling relates to earnings.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- 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
Data · Databases
Design a database for a hostel or library
Model a real system as tables, normalise it and answer ten questions with SQL.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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