Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Threat-Model and Hardening Proposal for a Whistleblower Intake
Using the current-stack dossier and the CTO mandate brief, build a threat model of the existing intake using the LINDDUN privacy-threat framework (linkability, identifiability, …
- Anonymous Communication
- Threat Modeling
- Tor
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a 12-Week LeSS Rollout for Six Product Teams
Using the LeSS rules and principles source, the leadership rollout charter, the team audit and ceremony observation notes, and the team baseline metrics dataset, design a 12-wee…
- Advanced Process Models
- Scaling Agile
- Less
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Workforce Readiness Case File for a SaaS Sales Pivot
Working only from the two items in your provided materials — the longitudinal workforce records file and the chief executive's transition memo — examine whether Halyard's people…
- Hr Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Workforce Planning
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Train a Reinforcement-Learning Locomotion Policy for a Quadruped
You receive a configured Isaac Lab environment for the quadruped, a baseline PPO trainer, and a set of 8 trip-hazard / slip stress scenarios. Train the policy for a budget of ab…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Locomotion
- Domain Randomization
Open coursework Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
DPO Fine-Tune for a Domain-Specific Writing Assistant
You receive a base instruction-tuned model checkpoint plus 2,500 preference pairs from editorial reviews (each pair: two grant-application paragraphs, the editor-preferred winne…
- Dpo
- Preference Learning
- Model Finetuning
Machine Learning from Human Preferences (RLHF and Alignment) - CodeIntermediateNew
Integer Programming for Cloud Resource Allocation
Your task is to formulate an integer programming model to select the number of reserved instances (each type: compute, memory, storage) and allocate on-demand instances monthly.…
- Integer Programming
- Python
- Pulp
Operations Research and Optimization - DesignIntermediateNew
Author a SOC 2-Ready Incident Response Playbook for Kestrel Pay
Using the Kestrel Pay company dossier and the current pinned-message 'playbook' (both provided), author a four-phase playbook — Prepare, Detect & Analyze, Contain/Eradicate/Reco…
- Incident Response
- NIST Sp 800 61
- Security Governance
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Shareable Immutable List for a Real-Time Document Editor
Using the provided API specification (persistent-list-spec) and the starter module (immutable-list-starter), implement a persistent immutable list supporting get, set, append, p…
- Data Abstraction
- Recursion
- Persistent Data Structures
Open coursework - Browse challenges
Explore role
Product Manager
Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Domain-Specific Reranker for a Legal-Tech Search Box
You receive 20,000 (query, document, relevance-label) triples from the firm's contract corpus. Fine-tune a small cross-encoder (e.g., ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2 or BAAI/bge-reranker…
- Cross Encoder Reranker
- Fine Tuning
- Ir Evaluation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Diffusion Model for a Sustainable-Fashion Mood-Board Tool
You receive around 1,200 curated images of sustainable garments tagged with silhouette and material. Choose a base diffusion model (Stable Diffusion 1.5/2.1 or SDXL) and apply L…
- Diffusion Models
- Lora Fine Tuning
- Image Generation
Deep Generative Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a Tangled Order Aggregate at a Logistics Platform
Work in the provided Spring Boot 3 + Java 21 codebase. Identify the true aggregate roots (likely candidates: Order, Shipment, Invoice) and split the god object accordingly. Extr…
- Tactical Ddd
- Aggregate Design
- Java Refactoring
Open coursework Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Sequence Model for Wearable-Telemetry Sleep Staging at a Healthtech
You receive 220 nights of wearable telemetry from 60 subjects with PSG ground-truth labels. Train three sequence models: an LSTM baseline, a 1D-CNN+GRU hybrid, and a small trans…
- Sequence Models
- Lstm
- Transformers
Deep Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Reward Shaping for a Quadruped Locomotion Policy
You receive a quadruped locomotion environment (Isaac Lab or pybullet-quadruped), the previous reward function (5 terms), and a budget of 6 training runs. Design 4 reward varian…
- Reward Shaping
- Ppo
- Locomotion
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Choose the Right Tenant Containment Strategy for an Edge Platform
Working only from the provided materials, reach and defend a containment recommendation. Read the documented incident record (case-file) to understand what triggered the review …
- Containment
- Virtualization
- Wasm
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Force-Controlled Polishing Skill for a Watchmaker
You receive simulated polishing trajectories from the manufacturer's robot, force-sensor logs from 20 master-craftsman demonstrations, and a quality-rubric (mirror finish 1-5) f…
- Impedance Control
- Force Control
- Manipulation
Robotics - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design TaskFlow's Pricing-Page Experiment Verdict and Decision Proposal
Working only from the two provided materials — the visitor-level experiment dataset (`ab_test_visitors.csv`) and the VP decision brief (`vp_decision_brief.md`) — design a propos…
- A B Testing
- Statistical Analysis
- Bayesian Methods
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Halve a Daily Spark Bill Without Breaking the SLA
Work only from the materials in this file. Read the representative PySpark module (PULSE-JOB) and the cluster configuration (PULSE-CLUSTER) to understand how the nightly job is …
- Spark
- Cost Optimization
- Etl Pipelines
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team a Customer-Service Chatbot for Jailbreak Resistance
Use a published taxonomy of jailbreak categories (prompt injection, persona override, encoded payloads, multi-turn escalation, refusal bypass, tool-misuse). For each category, d…
- Red Teaming
- Jailbreak Analysis
- LLM Evaluation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Detect Defects on a Production Line for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
You receive 12,000 labelled grayscale part images (8,000 good, 4,000 defective across 6 defect types) at 2048x2048. Build a pipeline that does classical preprocessing (illuminat…
- Defect Detection
- Image Classification
- Image Preprocessing
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
AI-Driven Sales Lead Scoring for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
You will receive a sample dataset of 200 leads with fields like company size, industry, email open rates, and website visits. Using AI tools, you must craft prompts to generate …
- Prompt Engineering
- Lead Scoring
- Data Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes
- Cost Optimization
- AWS
Cloud Computing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Accessibility Audit and 90-Day Fix Plan for Halo Insights
Working from the provided dashboard specification (the twelve pages and their shared components), the representative page component (a real dashboard page with accessibility def…
- Accessibility
- Wcag Audit
- Usability Evaluation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Forecasting Churn for a SaaS Scale-Up
You are a data scientist intern at TaskFlow. Using the provided dataset, perform feature engineering and build a logistic regression or decision tree model to predict churn. Ide…
- Data Analysis
- Regression
- Classification
Open coursework
How it works
From brief to credential, in six steps.
Step 01
Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
Step 02
Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
Earn a verified credential.
Step 06
Add it to LinkedIn with one click.
Industry teams behind a decade of practitioner briefs
Hiring from this pool?
Sponsor a challenge and meet candidates through actual work.
Industry teams can shape briefs around the skills they hire for, then evaluate students on rubric-scored deliverables — not resumes.