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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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
Biomedical Engineering + Health Technology
Build a heart-rate monitor with a light sensor
Detect your pulse from light passing through a fingertip and display beats per minute.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- 500–1,000
Accountancy · Ratio Analysis
Analyse the annual report of a listed company
Compute liquidity, profitability and solvency ratios for a company over five years and explain the trends.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Mechatronics and Robotics + Robotics, IoT and Hardware
Build a robotic arm with servo motors
Build a four-axis arm controlled by knobs, then record and replay a pick-and-place routine.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 1,000–2,500
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
History · Modern History
Compare how two textbooks tell the same event
Compare the account of one event in two textbooks from different decades or countries.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Teaching and Learning · Teaching Aids
Build a teaching aid for a hard concept
Make a hands-on model that teaches one concept students usually get wrong, and test whether it works.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- 250–500
Media and Journalism · Podcasts
Produce a five-episode podcast on a local issue
Research, record and edit a short podcast series with interviews.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 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
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
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
Languages and Linguistics · Dialects
Document the dialect spoken in your family
Record 100 everyday words in your home dialect and compare them with the standard language.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- 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
Architecture and Interior Design + Civil Engineering
Design a small house for a real plot
Design a compact house for a specific family and site, with plans, a section and a model.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 500–1,000
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
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
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
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
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