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
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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
Biomedical Engineering + Health Technology
Make a low-cost digital stethoscope
Fit a microphone to a stethoscope head, record heart sounds and analyse them on a computer.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- 1,000–2,500
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
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
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
Agricultural Technology + Geography
Map a farm and plan its inputs by zone
Sample soil on a grid across one field and map how moisture and pH vary.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Crops, Soil and Horticulture
Predict crop yield from rainfall data
Combine public district rainfall and yield data and test how much of yield rainfall explains.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud + Environmental Science
Measure and reduce the energy use of your code
Profile a program, optimise it and estimate the energy and carbon saved.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Teaching and Learning + Sociology
Study school dropout reasons in your area
Interview families and teachers about why some children left school, with care and consent.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Physics
Simulate a quantum circuit
Write a small simulator for one and two qubits and reproduce a Bell state.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
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