Foundational Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the foundational level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- CodeFoundationalNew
Swap a List Scan for a Min-Heap in the Dispatcher
Working only from the materials provided, your job is to make the courier-selection logic faster and to show, with evidence, that it actually got faster. First, read the de-iden…
- Heap Data Structure
- Complexity Analysis
- Python
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Build a Tic-Tac-Toe-Style Game Agent for an Edtech Demo
Implement Connect-Four (7-column, 6-row board) in Python plus a minimax agent with alpha-beta pruning, configurable search depth, and a simple heuristic evaluation function for …
- Game Playing Ai
- Minimax
- Alpha Beta Pruning
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Optimize EcoThreads' Local vs. Overseas Cotton Sourcing
Working only from the EcoThreads sourcing file (the de-identified internal record) and the supplier cost-and-emissions dataset, find the combination of local and overseas shirt …
- Cost Minimization
- Isoquant Isocost
- Carbon Footprint
Open coursework 
StrategyFoundationalNewStrategy Memo on AI in University Assessments
You receive: the current academic-integrity policy, faculty survey data from 320 academic staff, a student survey of 1,800 students, and 3 case studies of how peer universities …
- Education Policy
- Ai Strategy
- Assessment Design
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- CodeFoundationalNew
Rule-Based Intent Classifier for a Customer-Support Triage Bot
Build a rule-based classifier in Python that runs ordered rules (regex + keyword + simple heuristics) against ticket subject + body. Use a hierarchical rule structure (high-prec…
- Knowledge Representation
- Rule Based Systems
- Python Programming
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS Elective) - CodeFoundationalNew
Python Data Pipeline for Spotify Listening Trends
Write a Python script (or Jupyter notebook) that reads the provided CSV files (4 weeks of Spotify Top 200 data), cleans inconsistencies (missing artists, duplicate entries, enco…
- Object Oriented Programming
- Data Analytics
- Statistics
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Bookkeeping Reset for a Lisbon Specialty Coffee Roaster
Work only from the transaction log provided as a CSV (the 'Café Atlântico quarterly transaction log'). For each of the roughly 60 to 80 transactions, write a double-entry journa…
- Double Entry Bookkeeping
- Journal Entries
- Trial Balance
Open coursework - StrategyFoundationalNew
Design a Lightweight Intrapreneurship Program for TaskFlow
Working only from the materials provided — the TaskFlow company dossier (taskflow-dossier), the leadership strategy and budget memo (leadership-memo), and the employee innovatio…
- Program Design
- Intrapreneurship
- Process Mapping
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- StrategyFoundationalNew
Restructure GreenMart's Store Sales Force to Lift Upselling
Using the provided transaction-level sales export, the staff roster and turnover record, and the store-visit field notes, build a sales force restructuring plan for GreenMart's …
- Sales Force Analysis
- Incentive Design
- Training Program Design
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Create a Remote Work Policy for a 15-Person Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to draft a remote work policy for the brand. Include guidelines on work hours, communication norms, virtual collaboration tools, well-being initiatives, and sustain…
- Remote Work Policy
- Employee Wellbeing
- Sustainability
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Sentiment Analysis for Tel Aviv D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are provided with a dataset of 10,000 customer reviews (in English) with no labels. Your task is to preprocess the text, develop a sentiment classification model using NLP t…
- Text Preprocessing
- Sentiment Analysis
- Classification
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Optimizing Sales Cloud for a D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a Salesforce junior consultant hired by GlowUp Brasil. Your task is to propose a Sales Cloud setup that includes lead conversion, opportunity pipeline tracking, and auto…
- Sales Cloud
- Lead Management
- Opportunity Management
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- CodeFoundationalNew
Classify Retail Product Photos for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Use a publicly-available product-image dataset (e.g., Fashion-MNIST extended, or a Kaggle e-commerce subset of around 10k images across 12 categories). Fine-tune a small pretrai…
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch
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