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
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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
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
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
Artificial Intelligence · Recommendation Systems
Build a movie recommender
Recommend films from the public MovieLens ratings using item similarity.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Agricultural Technology
Recognise plant diseases from leaf photos
Train a model on public leaf images to tell healthy leaves from diseased ones and test it on your own photos.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning
Compare machine-learning models on one dataset
Evaluate five classifiers on the same public dataset with cross-validation and report the differences properly.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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
Data · Data Engineering
Build a data pipeline that runs every day
Fetch a public data feed daily, clean it, store it in a database and chart the history.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision
Build an image search engine
Find visually similar images by comparing feature vectors from a pretrained network.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Chemical Engineering · Reaction Engineering
Optimise a reaction with a simple reactor model
Simulate batch and continuous reactors for a first-order reaction and compare conversion.
- Advanced
- 2–4 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
Automobile Engineering + Physics
Model a car suspension
Simulate a quarter-car model over a bump and tune the damper for comfort.
- Advanced
- 2–4 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
Artificial Intelligence · Time-Series
Detect anomalies in sensor data
Flag unusual readings in a temperature or power series using rolling statistics.
- Advanced
- 1–2 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
Software Development + Entrepreneurship
Build a price comparison tool for textbooks
Let students list and find second-hand textbooks on campus and compare prices.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision
Recognise Indian sign language letters
Collect images of static signs, train a classifier and test it with people who did not provide training data.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- Free
Applied Mathematics + Programming
Solve the travelling salesman problem for your city
Find a short route through 15 places in your city and compare exact and heuristic methods.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision
Count vehicles in a video with computer vision
Use a pretrained detector to count vehicles crossing a line in traffic footage.
- 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
Artificial Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning
Train an agent to play a simple game
Implement Q-learning for a grid world and watch the agent learn the shortest path.
- 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
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