Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a Tic-Tac-Toe-Style Game Agent for an Edtech Demo. Beginner-friendly challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockc...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Ship a Connect-Four minimax agent with a classroom UI and a teacher-ready 30-minute lesson plan.
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Implement minimax with alpha-beta pruning on a classic two-player game
- Design a non-terminal heuristic evaluation function
- Profile search depth vs. compute trade-offs
- Translate an AI demo into a teacher-deliverable lesson
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Bachelor · Ai Systems
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at the Bachelor level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Game Playing Ai
Apply game playing ai to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Minimax
Apply minimax to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Alpha Beta Pruning
Apply alpha beta pruning to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Python
Write clean, efficient Python for data processing, automation, and backend services.
- User Interface Design
Apply user interface design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Educational Content Design
Apply educational content design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Engineer
Shipping a small AI app end-to-end (algorithm plus UI plus docs) is the AI engineer's first-week deliverable at any startup.
This challenge sharpens
- minimax
- alpha-beta-pruning
- python
AI Product Designer
Wrapping a game-tree agent in a UI a teenager can use surfaces the core product-design skill of making AI feel comprehensible.
This challenge sharpens
- user-interface-design
- educational-content-design
- game-playing-ai
AI Product Manager
Translating an AI capability into a teacher-deliverable lesson is exactly the AI PM skill of bridging tech to a non-technical audience.
This challenge sharpens
- educational-content-design
- user-interface-design
- game-playing-ai