Public catalogue
Screening statements
Choose one statement from your team’s mode. Submit the completed official presentation through the Screening round on your dashboard.
SEED
School students working on SDG-focused ideas with support from an approved school SPOC.
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Is Your Water Really Safe?
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation; SDG 12: Responsible Consumption. Your school has five water sources, but nobody knows which ones are safe. Measure the pH of each source, identify one that may need treatment, and propose a low-cost correction using a substance such as lime or washing soda. Include the balanced chemical equation.
Expected outcome
A practical water-treatment proposal supported by pH readings and a balanced chemical equation.
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Keeping Vaccines Cold Without Electricity
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. A health worker must keep vaccines cold where electricity, batteries, solar panels and generators are unavailable. Use evaporation, latent heat and insulation to design a safe cooling system.
Expected outcome
A scientifically accurate cooling design with materials, operating steps and temperature-safety reasoning.
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When Planting Trees Creates a Problem
SDG 15: Life on Land. A tree-plantation drive used species that did not suit the local soil and climate. Explain the ecological mistakes and design a correction plan based on ecosystems, biodiversity, soil and geography.
Expected outcome
A recovery plan that identifies the overlooked ecological factors and justifies suitable species and actions.
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Would You Change Your Farming Method?
SDG 2: Zero Hunger. A farmer is not convinced about methods such as drip irrigation or crop rotation. State the three strongest economic, practical or cultural objections, then answer each with a realistic solution.
Expected outcome
Three credible objections and practical responses that make a sustainable method workable for the farmer.
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The First 60 Seconds
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being. Someone nearby develops a severe allergic reaction and the nearest hospital is 40 minutes away. Describe the safest actions a bystander should take in the first 60 seconds using accurate Biology and Chemistry.
Expected outcome
A safety-first response plan that avoids harmful improvisation and explains the science behind each action.
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The Solar Panels Nobody Uses
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. A village received free solar panels, but many are now broken, unused or stored away. Investigate maintenance, ownership, suitability, repairs and responsibility, then address the root cause.
Expected outcome
A sustainable operating and maintenance plan that explains why the original deployment failed.
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Who Gets the Last Dose?
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being; SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities. One hundred treatment doses are available for 300 people. Design a fair allocation system, explain how it works, and defend it against the two strongest objections.
Expected outcome
A clear allocation rule that can be applied consistently and defended on practical and ethical grounds.
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Teaching What Cannot Be Said
SDG 4: Quality Education. A school wants comprehensive health and hygiene education, but some parents object to certain topics. Design a curriculum that achieves the health outcome while addressing community concerns.
Expected outcome
A curriculum and communication plan that balances scientific accuracy, student health and community context.
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One River. Three Needs. One Drought.
SDG 6: Clean Water; SDG 7: Clean Energy; SDG 2: Zero Hunger. A river supplies farms, drinking water and a hydropower plant during a severe drought. Create a reusable allocation rule and test it against the claims of each stakeholder.
Expected outcome
A repeatable allocation rule with priorities, thresholds and a reasoned response to each stakeholder.
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The Girl Who Stopped Coming to School
SDG 4: Quality Education; SDG 5: Gender Equality. Girls leave secondary school around age 14 even though distance, cost and safety have been addressed. Identify the most likely hidden barrier and design a focused response.
Expected outcome
An evidence-based explanation of the hidden barrier and a solution that targets it directly.
CORE
First-time and emerging builders looking for a structured, accessible challenge.
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Surplus Food Redistribution Platform
Build a platform that connects college canteens, hostels, restaurants and events with verified organisations that can collect surplus food. Donors list food, quantity and pickup time. Recipients claim what they need.
Expected outcome
A working platform with verified recipients, live quantity tracking and automatic expiry of stale claims.
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Financial Literacy and Personal Budgeting Assistant
Build a platform that teaches saving, budgeting, loans and responsible spending while helping users understand their income and expenses.
Expected outcome
A budgeting tool with personalised guidance that explains financial habits and core financial concepts.
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Child Development and Immunisation Support
Build a platform that maintains child records, tracks development milestones and vaccinations, and identifies children who may miss upcoming vaccinations when families migrate or paper records are lost.
Expected outcome
A health-worker dashboard with child records, milestone tracking, vaccination status and reminders.
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Digital Platform for Rural Women Entrepreneurs
Build a simple platform that helps rural women discover relevant business information, training, markets and income opportunities.
Expected outcome
A mobile-friendly service that connects users with useful business resources, training and opportunities.
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Smart Energy Usage and Saving Assistant
Build a platform that analyses electricity use, identifies consumption patterns and suggests practical ways for homes or organisations to reduce usage.
Expected outcome
A dashboard with usage patterns, forecasts and specific recommendations for reducing consumption.
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Detect and Address Student Learning Gaps
Build a platform that analyses multiple student responses, identifies common misconceptions and groups students who need support with the same concept.
Expected outcome
A teacher dashboard that identifies misconceptions and creates useful intervention groups.
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Guided Social-Welfare Application Platform
Build a platform that asks applicants simple questions and creates a personalised checklist for pensions, scholarships or government schemes.
Expected outcome
A system that explains requirements, lists the required documents and identifies missing information.
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Social and AI-Powered Fashion Discovery
Build a fashion discovery platform where users search with natural language or images and receive relevant product and outfit recommendations.
Expected outcome
A working text and image search experience with useful, personalised recommendations.
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Smart NGO Beneficiary Management
Build a platform that helps NGO workers manage beneficiary records, identify urgent cases and match people with suitable support programmes.
Expected outcome
An NGO dashboard for managing beneficiaries, prioritising cases and matching support programmes.
FRONTIER
Experienced teams ready for a more demanding technical and product challenge.
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AI-Based Semiconductor Defect Detection
Build a computer-vision system that analyses semiconductor inspection images and identifies defective components.
Expected outcome
An ML inspection system with measurable detection performance on sample images.
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Intelligent Supply-Chain Risk and Route Management
Build a system that detects disruptions caused by traffic, weather, supplier delays or inventory shortages and recommends better routes or actions.
Expected outcome
A decision-support platform that identifies supply-chain risks and recommends an appropriate response.
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Campus Peer-to-Peer Compute Sharing Network
Build a secure campus network where students can contribute or request unused CPU and GPU capacity for approved workloads such as ML training, rendering or simulations.
Expected outcome
A working multi-machine prototype that distributes approved jobs according to available compute capacity.
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Fast and Secure Online Transaction Authentication
Build a cloud authentication service that uses behaviour, device information and transaction patterns to allow, challenge or block an online transaction.
Expected outcome
A real-time risk service that returns a decision and explains the signals behind it.
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AI-Powered Content Authenticity Checker
Build a tool that analyses text, images or video and assesses whether the content is authentic, manipulated or uncertain.
Expected outcome
A web tool or API that returns an assessment, confidence score, supporting signals and an explanation.
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Smart Groundwater and Irrigation Management
Build a decision-support system that combines groundwater, rainfall, soil, crop and canal data to identify recharge locations and improve irrigation decisions.
Expected outcome
A dashboard for a selected area with groundwater trends, recharge locations and irrigation recommendations.
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AI-Based ESG Report Contradiction Detector
Build a system that compares sustainability reports with regulatory filings or other public documents and flags potentially conflicting claims.
Expected outcome
A document comparison tool that highlights possible contradictions and explains each difference.
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AI Agent for Retail Supply-Chain Disruptions
Build an agent that receives a disruption alert, gathers information from available tools or APIs, assesses the risk and recommends an action.
Expected outcome
A working agent that documents its investigation, risk assessment, recommendation and supporting evidence.