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Engineering 6h soloGentleMove a marble two metres without motors
Design a device that transports a marble at least 2m using only stored energy — gravity, springs, elastic. Slowest successful run wins.
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Small projects that prove something
A brief, a time box, and a way to tell whether it worked. Run one alone or with a team, keep the evidence, and see which paths it opens.
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Arts 6h soloGentleInterview three people doing a job you are curious about
Talk to three people actually doing the work. Publish what surprised you.
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Technology 16h pairDoableShip a one-page site for a real local business in 48 hours
Find a real business with no decent web presence and give them one. Free is fine.
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Mathematics 12h soloDoableClean and publish one messy public dataset
Take a genuinely messy open dataset, clean it properly, publish it with notes.
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- 1. Find a dataset nobody has cleaned
- 2. Document every problem you find
- 3. Write reproducible cleaning code
- 4. Publish data plus notebook
- 5. Ask one expert to check it
It worked if
- · Cleaning script runs start to finish
- · Every transformation is documented
- · Someone else reproduced your output
Materials: Laptop (free)
Keep: A public repo with data, script and README
Paths it probes
- · AI scientist
- · Big data scientist
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Arts 8h soloGentleTeach one thing to five strangers
Pick something you can do and teach it properly to people who cannot.
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Engineering 8h soloGentleRepair three broken things
Fix three items headed for the bin. Document the diagnosis, not just the fix.
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Arts 7h soloDoableRun a week of daily improvised performance
Perform something unrehearsed every day for seven days, in front of at least one person.
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Mathematics 5h soloGentleGet ten strangers to reply
Send ten genuinely personalised messages to people you have never met, about something real.
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Science 6h soloGentleMeasure your own week like a scientist
Instrument one week of your life, then change one variable and measure again.
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Technology 20h pairDoableBuild something that moves on its own
Any autonomous machine: line follower, plant waterer, camera tracker.
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Arts 10h small teamGentleCook one meal for twelve people
Plan, budget, buy and serve a full meal for twelve on a fixed budget.
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Mathematics 12h soloStretchModel a real decision with numbers
Take a decision you or someone else actually faces and build a defensible model of it.
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Science 9h soloGentleShadow someone for a full working day
Spend one entire working day beside someone in a role you are considering.
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Mathematics 8h soloGentleSell ten things you already own
Learn the full commerce loop at zero risk: list, price, negotiate, ship.
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Arts 15h soloDoableWrite and record one complete song
Finished beats good. Three minutes, start to end, released somewhere public.
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Engineering 10h pairDoableAudit a real service for accessibility
Pick a site or a physical place and document what excludes people.
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Science 10h soloGentleGrow something edible from seed to plate
A full biological cycle, measured.
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Mathematics 10h pairDoableCut a real process in half
Find a process someone repeats weekly and make it take half the time.
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Technology 20h soloStretchTrain a model on data you collected yourself
No public dataset. Collect your own, label it, train something small.
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Arts 12h pairDoableDesign and run a two-hour workshop
Not a talk. People must make or decide something in the room.
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Engineering 8h soloDoableReverse-engineer a product you use daily
Take it apart — physically or logically — and explain how it actually works.
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Science 8h soloGentleMap what your area actually offers
Find and document every free or cheap opportunity within walking distance.
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Science 24h soloDoableComplete a measured six-week training block
Pick one physical capacity and improve it on a plan, with a test at each end.
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Mathematics 30h pairStretchTake a product from idea to first paying customer
One real transaction. Not a business plan.
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Arts 4h soloGentleMake something good under a hard constraint
One material, one colour, one hour, or one hundred words. The limit is the point.
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