As e-commerce and social media become increasingly intertwined, startups face the challenge of extracting meaningful insights from vast amounts of data to inform their strategies. In this Build Project, you'll step into the role of a Data Engineer, tasked with building a comprehensive data pipeline that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior and market trends. Under the guidance of an experienced industry expert, you’ll develop Python scripts for data extraction, transform data for analysis, and load it into a structured database. You’ll become familiar with essential industry tools and methodologies like SQL and data visualization techniques, all within an environment that simulates the operations of a real data analytics team. This hands-on experience will equip you with valuable skills that are highly sought after in today’s data-driven landscape, making you a standout candidate for future roles in data engineering and analytics.

Law 101: Primer to Practicing Law – Analytical Thinking and Legal Writing

law, legal-writing

Joo Hee Park

and 1 more

Develop the skills needed to be a successful law student through analyzing case law, preparing a legal memo, and advocating for your client.

Law Fellow

This project is designed for students who aspire to work in the legal industry. Practicing law has its unique features that students cannot know until they get a hands-on experience of what it’s like. How is “legal writing” different from writing any other essays or research papers? How is “legal research” different from any other research? How is reading case law and court decisions different from any other papers? Law Students spend an entire year (or more) to learn these skills. The project allows you to get a head start in gaining these skills, in a more simplified, beginner-friendly way. You will develop a legal memo as a final deliverable, which will include your analysis of cases, and its application to the matter at hand, and your position in advocating for your client. It can be used as a writing sample which will be handy in applying for law schools and/or internships or other law office positions that do not require an attorney license.At the end of the 8-weeks session, you will feel more confident applying for law schools or jobs in the legal industry.

Legal Analysis and Writing: Legal Memorandums and Briefs

legal-writing, legal-analysis, legal-research

Nataly Rahmo

and 1 more

Acquire proficiency in legal writing, as well as legal analysis and research to enhance your critical skills.

Law Fellow

You will learn legal writing to organize research, create outlines, and draft legal documents such as memorandums and briefs at the end of the project. In this Build Project, you will understand the basics of legal writing and its importance in the legal field. You will write down a legal paper: a memorandum or brief. This assignment will require you to complete research plans, writing outlines, document summaries, and writing assignments. You will also develop advanced writing, research, and analysis skills and a deep understanding of legal concepts. These skills can be integrated into their professional and academic pursuits, gaining valuable expertise in the process. You will also get acquainted with multiple legal search engines and be able to conduct successful research assignments.

Design an End-to-End Housing Price Prediction Machine Learning System

predictive-modeling, real-estate-analytics, machine-learning, cloud-computing

Nischal Subedi

and 1 more

Design an end-to-end housing price prediction machine learning system and deploy final model artifact using AWS Sagemaker.

Data Science Fellow

Predictive modeling is a critical skill for data scientists, widely used across various industries. In real estate, predictive analytics and valuation modeling are gaining momentum, with both startups and established companies increasingly adopting data-driven approaches to forecast housing prices.

In this Build Project, you will retrieve, clean, and preprocess real-world housing data, transforming it into a format suitable for machine learning. You will explore and visualize the data to gain insights, then apply supervised learning algorithms to predict the sales price for each house. Throughout the project, you'll focus on optimizing model performance through feature selection and hyperparameter tuning. Additionally, you'll deploy your final model using AWS SageMaker, making it accessible via cloud infrastructure. This hands-on project will not only enhance your predictive modeling skills but also give you practical experience in cloud-based machine learning deployment.

Developing Bio-based (CNSL) Cellular Products

sustainable-materials, materials-processing, polymer-engineering, materials-science

Abdul Al Alawi

and 1 more

Transform cashew nutshell byproducts into sustainable cellular materials that address environmental needs while showcasing innovative uses in various industries.

Materials Engineer Fellow

In the rapidly evolving field of sustainable materials, addressing environmental impact through innovative solutions is crucial. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Materials Engineer and develop bio-based cellular products using cashew nutshell liquid as a key component.

Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll prepare and test various sustainable materials, learning to apply cutting-edge analytical methods like FTIR and Karl Fischer. You'll become familiar with industry-standard techniques for material characterization and production, all within an environment that simulates real-world engineering challenges and team dynamics.

Important Details:

‍No Physical Materials Required: Students will not need to purchase any materials or conduct physical manipulations during the project; everything will be conducted online.
Free Software: All analyses will utilize free, readily available software tools, ensuring no additional costs for participants.
Project Format: The project will include a mix of pre-recorded instructional videos, live webinars for Q&A sessions, and interactive online discussions, alongside access to digital resources to support your learning.

From Zero to Prototype: Bring Your Software Startup Idea to Life

user-experience-design, user-interface-design, user-research, digital-design, design-prototyping

Arun Ganesan

and 1 more

Develop a software startup idea into a prototype by researching the problem, understanding users, and designing effective solutions iteratively.

Computer Science Fellow

You have a software product idea that you want to develop into a real product. Where do you even start? The truth is that it’s straightforward once you learn the process. It helps if you have Computer Science, Software Engineering, Design or Business or have previously acquired skills in one of these areas.

Every day, talented people work on countless software startup ideas, yet most fail. Using tools like the design process and user research can help teams move quickly and avoid common pitfalls that derail projects. In this Build project, you’ll take on the role of a digital product designer, applying the design process to software development. You’ll start by researching users, move through ideation sessions and ultimately build a prototype to pitch to a wider audience. The outcome will be an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)—not necessarily a finished product, but a foundation to introduce the essential tools and methods needed to build one successfully.

After 8 weeks, you’ll be able to apply this process to develop product ideas in any industry and tackle various problems. If you’re pursuing product manager or product designer roles, this project will also serve as a valuable addition to your portfolio.

Public Equity Valuation and Investment

equity-research, game-theory, financial-modeling, valuation-techniques

Bill Cui

and 1 more

Learn to evaluate a publicly traded company and produce an investment recommendation.

Finance Fellow

Detailed analyses and accurate predictions based on fundamental understanding of a company are key to becoming a successful public equity investing professional. In this Build Project, you will wear the hat of a fundamental analyst and develop investment recommendations about a publicly traded company’s stock. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you will dive deep into understanding the company’s business model, evaluating its business strategies and competitive landscapes, analyzing its financial data, and predicting its future growth potential. You will also become familiar with tools such as Python to conduct statistical analysis on macroeconomic data and apply various valuation methods in Excel to support your investment theses. The analytical and modeling skills gained from this project will help you become more competitive in the recruiting process for a junior equity investment role.

Integrating Large Language Model (LLM) Service Using Python

python, software-development, apis, large-language-models

Yuan Sun

and 1 more

In this project we will write Python code that integrates with third-party Large Language Model (LLM) to solve real-life problems, for example automatic email replying.

Computer Science Fellow

With the rapid rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the tech industry, mastering the ability to integrate these models into software solutions has become a key skill for developers. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Software Developer and build an automated email reply system using Python and third-party LLMs. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll write code to integrate LLMs with email systems, enabling the generation of contextually accurate responses in real time. You'll become familiar with API integration, natural language processing, and automation tools. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real AI-driven development team, giving you valuable experience in a growing field.

Drone Mounted with 3D Surface Scanner for Aircraft Structural Inspections

aircraft-maintenance, drones, unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav, structural-inspections, cad

Teja Swaroop Reddy Seelam

and 1 more

Integrate a 3D Surface Scanner along with a high-definition camera on a drone to aid in Aircraft structural inspections to improve accuracy, accessibility, safety and aircraft maintenance turnover.

Aerospace Engineering Fellow

For an airline, aircraft structural inspections play a pivotal role in ensuring structural integrity and aerodynamic smoothness, making it critical for its daily operations to be run in a highly safe and efficient manner. Some of these structural inspections include but are not limited to, detailed inspection of aircraft skin waviness for aerodynamic smoothness, dents, lightning & bird strike inspections, corrosion & sealing inspections, loose/damaged fastener inspections along with damage classification and repair limits.

In this build project you will wear the hat of an airline maintenance engineer to explore use cases of integrating a 3D surface scanner to perform aircraft structural inspections. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you’ll start by identifying gaps in traditional structural inspections, develop a solution and carry-out feasibility studies. You’ll become familiar with an airline maintenance program, manuals, 3D CAD modeling software, and FAA’s regulations. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real airline maintenance engineering team.

Fine-Tune a Job Title Embedding Model using Synthetic Training Data

natural-language-processing, transformers, fine-tuning, large-language-models-llms

James Alner

and 1 more

Generate synthetic training data using an LLM API to fine-tune a SBERT-based embedding model to cluster similar job titles, evaluating the improvement in the embedding’s performance for retrieval.

Data Science Fellow

Sentence embedding models have a wide variety of use cases in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) landscape, such as to facilitate vector search of unstructured text for semantically similar entries, or within a larger model to enable tasks such as regression or classification on free-text.

During this project, you will devise a prompt to generate a synthetic dataset to fine-tune a pretrained sentence embedding model to address deficiencies in the domain-specific use-case of embedding job titles. You will then use this dataset to fine-tune your pretrained model and evaluate the improvement in performance for the vector search task. Finally, you will deploy your fine-tuned model within a Streamlit web app, allowing you to easily show your model to anyone.

This project will help build your familiarity with basic prompting techniques, querying LLMs and parsing their outputs through an API, as well as popular Machine Learning and NLP frameworks (such as Hugging Face and Sentence-Transformers) and provide a compact end-to end experience from initial prototyping to dataset gathering, to training and evaluation, and finally deployment, covering the core parts of common workflows for a Data Scientist or ML Engineer.

Analyze the Market Potential of a Biotech Startup

biotechnology, startups, finance, due-diligence

Anjanei Dhayalan

and 1 more

Evaluate a biotech startup and learn to think like a Shark from Shark Tank.

Natural Sciences Fellow

In this Build Project, you’ll act as a Biotech Analyst, creating an Investment Research Thesis for a biotech company. Guided by an experienced Build Fellow, you'll conduct research, perform due diligence, and develop analytical models to assess the competitive landscape, regulatory environment, and market trends. You'll gain hands-on experience with industry tools, clinical trial data, and financial modeling. This practical experience offers essential skills for understanding biotech startups and navigating their risks and opportunities.

Make Scientific Research Results Accessible Using Interactive Design

science-communication, scientific-writing, science-journalism, scientific-illustration, molecular-biology, web-design

Alice Tirard

and 1 more

Help a peer-reviewed molecular biology study reach a non-expert audience by writing an interactive web article explaining the study's methods and findings.

Molecular Biology Fellow

From grant writing to conference talks, clear scientific communication can make or break the impact of a scientific discovery. This vital but underemphasized skill allows researchers of any level to demonstrate their understanding of complex scientific topics and bring their work to a broader audience. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Science Journalist, creating an article that uses scientific illustration and interactive design elements to explain a recent discovery in the field of molecular biology. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you'll select a recent paper from a prominent scientific journal and write a dense 1–2-page explainer that allows non-expert audiences to understand the findings, scientific context, and cultural relevance of the study. You'll become familiar with the writing conventions of scientific papers and have the opportunity to use data visualization and scientific illustration methods using tools like JavaScript D3 and Inkscape. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real team in biotechnology research.

Build a Virtual Office Feature for Remote Teams

software-development, software-engineering, computer-science

Xinyi Chen

and 1 more

Use JavaScript to develop a full-stack web application that allows remote teams to communicate via video calls. 

Computer Science Fellow

Web Development occupies a huge part of the total Software Engineer job market. For example, at Facebook, at least 30-40% of engineers are working on various Web Development projects. In this Build Project, you’ll wear the hat of a Software Engineer and develop a video call feature that can be used by remote teams. This task will allow you to develop skills across both front-end and back-end. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you’ll become familiar with web development frontend framework/libraries such as ReactJS and Redux and web development backend framework/libraries such as NodeJS. You’ll also get hands-on experience in using basic network concepts such as WebRTC and web socket, as well as using a real-time database. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real software engineer team. 

Develop a Digital Marketing Strategy for a Business of Your Choice

digital-marketing, content-marketing, artificial-intelligence, marketing-automation

Teena Minhas

and 1 more

Propose how a business of your choice can use multiple digital marketing channels to grow their audience.

Market Research Fellow

In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Digital Marketing Expert and design a digital marketing strategy for a business of your choice. Under the supervision of an experienced Project Leader, you'll identify target audiences, choose appropriate marketing channels, and prepare a report with your recommendations on the promotional strategy. You’ll gain solid understanding of the Kahn Retailing Success Strategy and omni-channel marketing (including search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, and email marketing). All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real marketing team.

Hydrogen Engineering Project and Supply Chain Mastery

operations, project-management, climate-tech

Johannes Lamprecht

and 1 more

Develop and implement optimization models and project plans for hydrogen engineering projects, supply chains and operational processes to enhance efficiency and reduce costs in the deployment of hydrogen fuel systems for Class 8 trucks.

Operations Research Fellow

In this Build Project, you will take on the role of an Operations Research Analyst and Technical Project Manager, focusing on optimizing the supply chain and operational processes for hydrogen fuel systems and ensuring that your team of engineers is functioning at its highest level. This project is crucial for the deployment of clean fuel solutions in Class 8 trucks, aiming to reduce global emissions.

You will work on real-world challenges such as supply chain dynamics, supplier collaboration, and operational efficiency. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you will develop mathematical models, perform risk assessments, and utilize data analytics to support decision-making. This project provides a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a cutting-edge field that is pivotal for achieving a zero-emission future.

Design an Educational Platform for Remote Learning 

user-experience-design, product-design, web-accessibility-standards, prototyping-and-usability-testing

Abiola Folaranmi

and 1 more

Design an easy-to-use and visually appealing online learning platform that works well on all devices and is accessible to everyone.

Design Fellow

Since the 2020 pandemic, many industries, including education, have had to embrace digital solutions more than ever. In this project, you'll take on the role of a UX Designer to create an engaging and user-friendly e-learning platform that meets today's educational needs. Guided by an experienced Build Fellow, you'll conduct user research, design visually appealing interfaces, and implement web accessibility standards to ensure everyone can use the platform. You'll work with industry tools like Figma for prototyping and usability testing. This project will give you hands-on experience and insights into the real-world challenges of designing effective digital education solutions.

Analyze a Dataset from a Critical Gender Perspective

data-science, gender-data

Belise Bwiza

and 1 more

Learn gender data best practices and audit a dataset of your choice and create an improved version of the dataset analysis.

Data Science Fellow

In the field of data science, the issue of data equity is an ongoing movement that aims to promote responsible data work. The current problem with major data practices is not that the data we have is insufficient, but that it doesn’t not accurately reflect the realities of women and non-binary people. For example, the gender binary (male/female) classification system in data collection will result in omission errors that make certain people’s experiences invisible. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Data Analyst and audit data cycle practices with a gender lens. Based on it, you'll produce a data visualization project that incorporates standard visualization frameworks and gender data best practices. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you'll uncover the flaws in current research methodologies that have led to inaccurate and incomplete data on the status of women and non-binary persons. You'll explore marginal changes that can be made to the way that we collect, analyze, and visualize gender data. You’ll become familiar with data visualization frameworks such as Tufte’s rules, Junk Chart’s trifecta, and Schwabish’s core principles, as well as such ubiquitous industry tools as Excel, R, or Tableau.  

Build a Full-Stack Software Application

software-development, web-development, full-stack-development

Karan Kwatra

and 1 more

Learn how to use PostgreSQL, Typescript, React and Vue to create a software app.

Software Development Fellow

The deliverables for this project are focused on building artifacts that you can use to showcase your work in a job application. By the end of the project, you will have built a full-stack software application that follows multi-tier architecture. You will learn about databases, back-end systems, and front-end systems. You will learn how to build an application that is extensible and complete. The application can do what you wish but must have all the relevant components. At the end of the project, you will deploy your application for anyone on the internet to view. This way, you’ll have something tangible to show recruiters for future job prospects.

Application of Markowitz Portfolio Theory to Build Your Own Portfolio

python, portfolio-management, optimization

Zhenan Li

and 1 more

Implement and apply the Markowitz Portfolio Theory to construct diversified portfolios that strike an optimal balance between risk and return.

Finance Fellow

In the ever-evolving landscape of financial markets, constructing and managing portfolios that optimize returns while minimizing risk is a fundamental challenge for investors. The Markowitz Portfolio Theory, introduced by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz, offers a pioneering framework for portfolio optimization. This project aims to leverage Markowitz's model to build and back-test portfolios, providing valuable insights into the construction of efficient investment strategies.

The primary objective of this project is to implement and apply the Markowitz Portfolio Theory to construct diversified portfolios that strike an optimal balance between risk and return. By utilizing historical financial data, we will back-test these portfolios to evaluate their performance under different market conditions.

How to Use QuickBooks Online

quickbooks-online, microsoft-excel, google-sheets, kinnser

Bud Khurelbaatar

and 1 more

Get hands-on experience in QuickBooks, focusing on essential accounting practices, financial management, and real-world applications to enhance your practical skills and career readiness.

Accounting Fellow

QuickBooks Online is a cloud-based accounting software that helps businesses manage their finances by tracking income and expenses, invoicing customers, paying bills, and generating financial reports. It's crucial for modern accountants to understand QuickBooks Online because it streamlines financial management, offers real-time data access, and enhances bookkeeping accuracy and efficiency. Approximately 80% of small businesses use QuickBooks, making it the most popular accounting software in the U.S., with over 26.5 million businesses utilizing it.

In my QuickBooks Online project, you will develop essential accounting skills through hands-on experience with the software, learning to navigate its features and manage accounts effectively. You will gain proficiency in generating and interpreting financial reports, including profit and loss statements and balance sheets. Additionally, you will build strong bookkeeping skills by understanding and performing fundamental tasks such as accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), and bank reconciliations. By applying core accounting principles to real-world scenarios, you will enhance your practical knowledge and prepare for successful careers in the accounting industry.

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Drug Development Meets Physics

Introduction to drug discovery

The Immuno-oncology Frontiers: Pioneering T Cells Based Immunotherapies

Explore Quantum Frontier: Calculating Atoms

Analyze the Market Potential of a Biotech Startup

Make Scientific Research Results Accessible Using Interactive Design

Identify the Potential Applications of Spatial Genomics

From Plans to Quantities: Estimating Essentials in a Construction Project