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Technology & AI
Build smart solutions with code, data, and emerging tech.
15–35 hoursBeginner
Build Your Own AI Tutor
Create an AI tutor that genuinely helps someone learn faster.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Build an AI Assistant for a Local Business
Use AI to help a real business communicate better, save time, or serve customers.
Open project guide15–35 hoursBeginner
Redesign an App You Use Every Day
Improve one frustrating part of an app you already know well.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Catch AI Hallucinating
Test AI answers, find mistakes, and create a guide for using AI responsibly.
Open project guide18–42 hoursIntermediate
Invent the Next Everyday AI Tool
Design an AI-powered product that solves a real problem in everyday student life.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Make Your Life Run on Autopilot
Automate one annoying personal workflow so technology quietly handles the boring parts without creating new chaos.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build an AI That Can See
Teach a computer to recognize a narrow visual pattern, then discover how easily confidence can outrun accuracy.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Teach an AI When to Call a Human
Design an AI system smart enough to recognize when the safest answer is to stop and ask a person.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Ship a Website for a Real Client
Turn a messy real-world need into a fast, accessible website someone can confidently use and maintain.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Turn Messy Data Into a Live Dashboard
Take a spreadsheet no one trusts and turn it into a clean tool people can use to see what is happening now.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Game People Want to Replay
Create a small game with one irresistible core loop instead of a giant unfinished world.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Audit an App’s Privacy Trail
Follow what one app asks for, collects, shares, stores, and leaves unclear before tapping “Allow.”
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Prototype Tech for Accessibility
Use technology to remove one specific barrier instead of building a vague solution “for everyone.”
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Data Tool for Your Community
Turn a frustrating local question into a simple public tool that helps people find, compare, or understand what matters.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Run an AI Model Bake-Off
Put competing AI systems through the same real tasks and discover why “best” depends on what you measure.
Open project guideCreator Economy & Social Media
Create content, grow an audience, and build your brand.
15–30 hoursBeginner
Build a Creator Brand Without Selling Out
Create a personal creator brand that feels authentic, useful, and worth following.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Run a 30-Day Content Experiment
Create content for a real audience, track what happens, and learn from the data.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Turn an Interest Into a Mini Media Channel
Build a small media brand around something you genuinely enjoy.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Go Viral Without Chasing Clout
Study what makes content spread, then design a smarter and healthier content strategy.
Open project guide18–35 hoursIntermediate
Collaborate Like a Creator
Learn how creators grow by working with others, not just posting alone.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Find Your First 100 True Fans
Build a small audience that genuinely cares instead of chasing a meaningless follower count.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Launch a Tiny Podcast Season
Create three episodes with a reason to exist and no room for filler.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Newsletter Worth Opening
Earn a place in someone’s inbox by making every issue useful, distinctive, and easy to finish.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Turn One Great Idea Into Twelve Pieces
Learn the creator skill of going deeper instead of constantly starting over.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Launch a Challenge People Actually Finish
Design a short community challenge that creates momentum instead of guilt.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Sell a Digital Product You Made
Create one genuinely useful digital product and prove whether anyone values it.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Creator Analytics Lab
Turn a confusing pile of metrics into decisions that protect both growth and creative quality.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Design a Comment Section People Trust
Reimagine online conversation so useful voices rise without rewarding cruelty or outrage.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Turn a Real-World Event Into a Digital Moment
Create online coverage that makes people feel the energy without flattening the real event into random posts.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Learn in Public Without Faking Expertise
Build credibility by showing honest progress, questions, revisions, and useful discoveries.
Open project guideDesign & Creative Arts
Shape ideas into visual systems, spaces, and experiences.
15–30 hoursBeginner
Redesign Something Ugly
Find something visually confusing, outdated, or messy and make it clearer, stronger, and more useful.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Create a Visual Identity for a Real Cause
Use design to help a nonprofit, club, or community cause communicate more clearly.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Build a Portfolio Around One Creative Style
Create a small collection of work that shows a clear visual voice.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Design a Poster Series That Stops People
Create a poster campaign that makes people pause, understand, and remember an idea.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Turn an Empty Space Into an Experience
Design a space people will remember, not just a room that looks nice.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Package It Like It Belongs on the Shelf
Turn an ordinary product into something people understand, trust, and want to pick up.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Stop People From Getting Lost
Redesign a confusing place so a first-time visitor can move through it with confidence.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Design for the Person Everyone Forgot
Find the user excluded by an everyday design and make their experience impossible to ignore.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Make a Zine People Keep
Create a small publication with a strong enough point of view to survive beyond one scroll.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Museum in One Corner
Turn a tiny physical space into an experience that makes one overlooked story feel important.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Make Data Impossible to Ignore
Transform a cold dataset into a visual story people can understand in seconds and explore for longer.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Design a Five-Look Capsule Collection
Build a fashion collection with one clear world, not five unrelated outfits.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Invent a Typeface With a Personality
Create letters that communicate a mood before anyone reads the words.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Redesign a Notice Nobody Reads
Take an ignored public notice and make the important action unmistakable.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Reinvent a School Tradition
Take a ritual students barely notice and redesign it into something they will remember and own.
Open project guideHealth & Psychology
Explore human health, behavior, habits, and wellbeing.
15–30 hoursBeginner
Hack Your Habits
Build a personal system that makes better habits easier and unhelpful habits harder.
Open project guide15–30 hoursBeginner
Sleep Like It Matters
Study your sleep, test small changes, and build a routine that actually helps you feel better.
Open project guide18–35 hoursIntermediate
Train Your Brain Under Pressure
Build a practical toolkit for stress, focus, and staying calm when life gets busy.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Become Your Own Health Detective
Track your routines, study your patterns, and discover what affects your energy and well-being.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
The Science of Why People Do Weird Things
Study the psychology behind everyday choices, habits, motivation, and social behavior.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Find Your Focus Formula
Run a personal experiment to learn which conditions help you do deep work without pretending one routine fits everyone.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Design a Teen Stress Reset
Create a short reset routine that teenagers might actually use when pressure spikes.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Expose the Tricks in Food Marketing
Decode how packaging, influencers, health claims, and placement shape what teenagers think they are choosing.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Movement Menu for Busy Students
Replace the all-or-nothing workout mindset with flexible movement choices that fit real school days.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Audit the Attention Economy
Investigate how apps compete for your time and redesign one part of the relationship.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Map a Health Gap in Your Community
Reveal how access to one health-supporting resource changes across neighborhoods or groups.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Make a Health Topic Teen-Proof
Translate one confusing health topic into something accurate, usable, and impossible to mistake for a lecture.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Redesign the School Day for Human Energy
Use evidence and student experience to rethink when people are expected to focus, move, eat, connect, and recover.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Meet the People Who Keep Communities Healthy
Go beyond doctor and nurse to discover the network of careers protecting health before, during, and after a crisis.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Calm-in-a-Crisis Communication Kit
Design the messages people need when stress is high, time is short, and rumors travel fast.
Open project guideScience & Engineering
Test ideas, build prototypes, and learn from evidence.
20–45 hoursIntermediate
Break Something. Learn Something.
Run a real experiment, collect evidence, and discover what happens when you test your own question.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Engineer a Better Solution
Find a real frustration, build a prototype, test it, and make it better.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Build It. Test It. Improve It.
Make a prototype, test it with real people or conditions, and improve it like an engineer.
Open project guide15–35 hoursBeginner
Think Like a Scientist
Choose an everyday mystery, collect evidence, and explain what the data suggests.
Open project guide25–55 hoursAdvanced
Invent Something Future You Would Use
Create an original invention that solves a real problem and pitch why it matters.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Reverse Engineer Something You Use
Take apart the design logic hiding inside an ordinary object and prove why every part exists.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Sensor That Notices What Humans Miss
Give a small device the ability to detect a pattern people cannot monitor continuously.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Engineer for the Worst Day
Design a system that still works when power, communication, time, or normal routines fail.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Put a Popular Myth in the Lab
Take one claim everyone repeats and design a fair test instead of arguing from confidence.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Water Filter and Prove What It Can Do
Engineer a filter, measure specific changes, and resist the temptation to call the water safe to drink.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Steal an Idea From Nature
Study one biological strategy and translate its principle into a human design without copying its appearance.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Launch a Citizen Science Field Study
Turn many small observations into a dataset that can answer one local scientific question.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Invent a Material for the Future
Create and test a material recipe designed around one real property, not just a cool appearance.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Machine With One Ridiculous Job
Engineer a delightfully unnecessary machine that performs one tiny task with surprising reliability.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Model a System Before It Breaks
Build a simulation that reveals how traffic, crowds, disease, resources, ecosystems, or another system behaves under stress.
Open project guideBusiness & Entrepreneurship
Find real customer problems and build practical business solutions.
25–50 hoursIntermediate
Make Your First Dollar
Start with a real problem, create a simple offer, and try to earn your first customer.
Open project guide18–35 hoursBeginner
Make a Brand People Remember
Design the strategy, visuals, and messaging that make a business feel real.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Become a Teen Consultant
Work with a real customer to improve something that matters.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Can This Business Actually Work?
Discover whether a business idea actually works by following the numbers.
Open project guide30–60 hoursAdvanced
Pitch the Next Big Thing
Bring your entrepreneurial skills together by building and pitching a startup idea that solves a real problem.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Open a Pop-Up Shop in 48 Hours
Turn a small idea into a real one-day selling experience with a deadline that forces smart choices.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Rescue a Broken Customer Experience
Find one frustrating customer journey and redesign it so people stop getting confused, delayed, or ignored.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Price It Like a Pro
Discover why the cheapest price is rarely the smartest price.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Subscription People Keep
Design recurring value strong enough that customers would choose to stay after the first month.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Negotiate Your First Real Deal
Prepare for a real negotiation where both sides need to leave with something valuable.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Give a Local Business a Fresh Start
Become the strategy team for a small business that deserves more attention.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Create Something People Preorder
Test whether people will commit before you spend money building too much.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Run a Tiny Team Without Losing Your Mind
Build the simple operating system that turns a group chat into a dependable team.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
X-Ray a Business Model
Take apart how a familiar company really creates, delivers, and captures value.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Business That Helps and Pays
Design a venture where social value is part of the engine, not decoration around it.
Open project guideMedia & Communication
Report, interview, explain, and tell stories that matter.
20–45 hoursIntermediate
Tell the Story Nobody Else Saw
Find an overlooked story and bring it to life through research, interviews, and thoughtful storytelling.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Make Complex Make Sense
Turn a confusing topic into a clear explainer people can actually understand.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Behind the Headlines
Compare how different news outlets tell the same story, then write the report you think readers deserve.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Capture a Moment That Matters
Document a real moment, event, or story in a way people can feel and remember.
Open project guide25–50 hoursAdvanced
Build a Story That Changes Minds
Create a multimedia campaign that helps people care about an issue that deserves more attention.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Produce a Podcast People Finish
Make one audio story tight enough that listeners stay through the final second.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Archive a Story Before It Disappears
Preserve a living memory, tradition, place, or experience before time changes what can still be recorded.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Photograph a Place Like a Journalist
Tell the truth about one place through a sequence of images rather than a pile of pretty shots.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Profile Someone People Overlook
Make readers care about a person whose work or experience usually stays in the background.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Fact-Check the Internet
Take one viral claim from confident post to documented verdict.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Turn Data Into a Human Story
Connect a meaningful dataset to the lives behind the numbers without using one person as decoration.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Run a Newsroom for One Day
Turn a real event or issue into a deadline-driven news package with roles, standards, and no time for chaos.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Write the Message When Everything Goes Wrong
Communicate during a reputation crisis without hiding, panicking, blaming, or making promises you cannot keep.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Create a PSA People Remember
Make one public-interest message clear enough to act on and distinctive enough to survive the feed.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Interview Your Way Into a Career
Use ten smart conversations to discover what a career actually feels like from the inside.
Open project guideEducation & Teaching
Teach, mentor, design learning, and help people grow.
15–30 hoursBeginner
Teach It So Anyone Can Understand
Turn a difficult topic into a lesson a younger student can actually understand.
Open project guide15–30 hoursBeginner
Study Smarter, Not Longer
Test better study strategies and build a system other students could actually use.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Teach Like a Pro
Build a tutoring toolkit and help a real learner make progress on something difficult.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Build a Workshop People Remember
Design and lead a hands-on workshop that helps people learn a real skill.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Make Learning Feel Like Play
Create an educational game that makes a hard topic easier to practice and remember.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Unlock Freshman Year
Create the guide you wish every incoming ninth grader received before the first bell.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Peer Mentor Program That Works
Turn friendly upperclassmen into prepared mentors who know how to listen, guide, and follow through.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Give Students a Real Say
Turn student opinions into credible evidence that school leaders can understand, respond to, and act on.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Design Learning for Different Brains
Rebuild one learning experience so success does not depend on a single way of paying attention, reading, or responding.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Run a Learning Lab
Test competing ways to learn the same skill and let evidence decide what works best.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Create a Micro-Course People Complete
Teach one useful outcome in less time than a movie and make every minute earn its place.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Host a Family Learning Night
Create an evening where students and adults learn with each other instead of sitting through another presentation.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Turn a Place Into a Learning Adventure
Make a park, block, museum, or neighborhood reveal stories and questions most people walk past.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Start a Book Club People Actually Join
Build a reading community that feels more like discovery and less like homework.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Map the Learning Opportunities Nobody Knows About
Find the workshops, clubs, mentors, programs, and free resources hiding in plain sight.
Open project guideEnvironment & Sustainability
Study your environment and build practical local solutions.
15–30 hoursBeginner
Audit Your World
Find hidden waste or environmental impact in a real place and design a smarter action plan.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Design a Greener Daily Life
Build a practical sustainability system that makes greener choices easier in everyday life.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Turn Trash Into a Case Study
Study what gets thrown away, find the patterns, and design a smarter waste solution.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Build a Climate Story People Can Feel
Transform climate research into a visual story, guide, or campaign people can actually understand.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Save One Small Corner of the Planet
Choose one real environmental problem close to home and take practical action to improve it.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Map the Heat Around You
Walk the same neighborhood at the same time and discover how dramatically heat changes block by block.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Pollinator Pit Stop
Turn one small patch into a useful stop on a much larger living network.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Track the Water You Never See
Follow the invisible water behind one everyday meal, outfit, product, or routine.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Bring Back the Night Sky
Investigate how outdoor lighting changes visibility, energy use, wildlife, and whether people can still see the stars.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Climate Risk Map for Your Community
Show how one climate hazard reaches real streets, people, and essential places.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Host a Repair and Reuse Rescue Day
Keep useful objects out of the trash by giving people a safe place to fix, swap, and learn.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Investigate the Air You Breathe
Measure how air conditions shift across time and place, then explain what the numbers can and cannot tell you.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Cut Energy Use Without Nagging Anyone
Redesign the system around energy use so the better choice becomes easier, visible, and shared.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Create the Field Guide Your Neighborhood Needs
Help people recognize the living things, seasonal changes, and ecological stories around their own block.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Pitch a Greener Block
Reimagine one ordinary block as a healthier, cooler, safer, and more resilient place.
Open project guideMoney & Financial Systems
Understand money decisions, markets, risk, and real tradeoffs.
10–24 hoursBeginner
Build a Real-Life Teen Budget Lab
Design a realistic budget and test how everyday money choices shape your future.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Launch a Tiny Business Experiment
Test a real business idea before building the full thing.
Open project guide18–35 hoursBeginner
Build Your Future Cost-of-Living Dashboard
Design a personalized financial dashboard that compares what life really costs after high school.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Write Your First Investment Thesis
Think like a professional investor by researching one company from every angle.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Create a Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin and Financial Systems
Explain money, financial systems, and Bitcoin in a way a beginner can actually understand.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Beat the Subscription Trap
Find the quiet monthly charges that turn small decisions into expensive habits.
Open project guide14–30 hoursBeginner
Make Your First Paycheck Work
Turn a first job into a money system before the money disappears.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Reveal the Real College Price Tag
Look past the sticker price and build a four-year estimate that exposes the costs families often miss.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Beat Buy Now, Pay Later
Decode why four easy payments can make one purchase feel cheaper than it is.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Money Emergency Plan
Create the calm checklist a young adult needs before a lost job, broken phone, surprise bill, or scam becomes a crisis.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Decode Insurance Before You Need It
Translate deductibles, premiums, limits, exclusions, and claims into decisions a teenager can actually understand.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Scam-Proof Money Guide
Study how urgency, impersonation, secrecy, and fake opportunity are engineered to defeat good judgment.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Track Inflation in Your Own Life
Build a personal price index and see why the headline inflation number may not feel like your actual life.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Design a Giving Plan That Actually Helps
Turn generosity into a disciplined decision about impact, trust, timing, and what a donor can sustain.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Family Money Decision Tool
Take one recurring family money debate and turn it into a transparent decision everyone can understand.
Open project guideLaw, Policy & Society
Investigate rules, power, public systems, and civic life.
20–40 hoursIntermediate
If You Were in Charge...
Take the role of a real decision-maker and make a tough community call using evidence and leadership.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
The Rulebook Behind Everyday Life
Investigate a law or policy that shapes daily life and explain why it matters.
Open project guide25–50 hoursAdvanced
Solve a Problem Nobody Agrees On
Study a controversial issue and build a thoughtful policy proposal backed by evidence.
Open project guide20–40 hoursIntermediate
Your Rights. Your Reality.
Investigate a legal misconception and build a guide that helps people understand their rights more clearly.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Democracy in Action
Track a real local decision and explain how communities actually make change.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Put a School Rule on Trial
Choose one rule students live under and test whether it is clear, fair, effective, and enforceable.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Follow the Money in a Public Budget
Trace where public money comes from, where it goes, and what every choice leaves unfunded.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Fact-Check a Campaign Promise
Take one political promise apart before deciding whether it is bold, vague, possible, or misleading.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Map Who Has Power in Your Town
Discover which decisions happen in public meetings, staff offices, boards, commissions, contracts, and informal networks.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Youth Policy Scorecard
Create a transparent way to judge whether a policy proposal works for young people, not just whether it sounds good.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Rebuild a Landmark Court Case
Step inside a major case before the outcome felt inevitable.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Write a Fairer School Policy
Move from complaining about a school problem to writing rules that could actually govern it.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Open the Public Record
Use the records already available to understand how a real public decision happened.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Mediate a Conflict Without Picking a Winner
Design a process that helps people move forward without pretending the conflict is simple.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Run a Public Hearing People Trust
Redesign the public meeting so participation is more than three rushed minutes at a microphone.
Open project guideSports & Performance
Study performance, teams, training, and the systems behind sport.
20–45 hoursIntermediate
Train Like the Pros
Use data, practice, and recovery to build a smarter personal performance system.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
The Science Behind Great Athletes
Study the science of movement, mindset, fueling, and recovery behind high performance.
Open project guide20–45 hoursIntermediate
Coach a Team Without Being the Coach
Use observation, feedback, and leadership to help a team or group improve.
Open project guide18–40 hoursIntermediate
Win the Margins
Study the small habits and routines that quietly shape performance.
Open project guide25–55 hoursAdvanced
Build Your Own Performance Lab
Run real experiments to improve one area of physical or mental performance.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Scout Like a Pro
Watch a game with the discipline of someone whose recommendation affects the next roster decision.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Sports Analytics Dashboard
Turn a season of numbers into the few insights a coach or athlete can actually use.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Design the Ultimate Game-Day Experience
Redesign everything around the competition so fans feel welcome before the opening whistle and connected after the final play.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Run a Youth Sports Clinic
Teach younger athletes one skill through a clinic that is organized, encouraging, safe, and genuinely fun.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Team Culture People Want to Join
Turn abstract words like commitment and respect into visible team habits, rituals, and decisions.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Build a Tournament From Scratch
Create a competition where the bracket works, the schedule survives reality, and every participant knows what is happening.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Find the Business Behind the Team
Look beyond the scoreboard to understand how a sports organization earns, spends, grows, and serves its community.
Open project guide30–56 hoursAdvanced
Investigate Who Gets to Play
Map the hidden costs, rules, access points, and social barriers that decide who can participate in a sport.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Build a Mental Game Toolkit
Translate performance psychology into practical routines athletes can use before, during, and after competition.
Open project guide20–42 hoursIntermediate
Map the 50 Careers Behind One Game
Follow one sporting event from field to broadcast to reveal the workforce most fans never notice.
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