Exploration: the pursuit of new ideas

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Make a project that explores the idea of a chain of events.

Interpret the theme however you think best captures the spirit of this idea! You could …
- Make a game where your actions have consequences
- Visualise global supply chains
- Create a high-throughput data processing pipeline

Our challenge is an exciting, mini-competition designed to test participants’ skills in logical reasoning, technical knowledge, and problem-solving.

Teams of 1 to 4 students will compete to solve a variety of challenges, each involving unique puzzles that require a mix of analytical thinking and technical expertise.

By successfully solving these challenges, participants will capture digital “flags” that earn them points.

Teams can strategically tackle challenges of varying difficulty levels, allowing both beginners and advanced students to participate and enjoy the thrill of competition. It’s a fantastic opportunity to learn, collaborate, and showcase your problem-solving skills.

Innovative use of media/tech to engage colleagues in a hybrid working world. – This is important and relevant to Atom as we are trying to understand ways in which we can connect our people in a hybrid working environment

Show how AI can be used for credit decision making in banking – AI is everywhere right now and it’s something that we have done a lot of research on internally, however, it would be great to get the students to think about AI could be used to enhance credit decision making (e.g. for commercial loans and residential mortgages)

Design a tool, platform, or app that empowers, uplifts, or supports people who need it most.

Imagine how technology can bridge gaps, remove barriers, and create opportunities for those who often go overlooked.

Let your creativity flow—there are no wrong answers here, only ideas that can change lives.

Hack together ideas to help level up equality within education, using gamification.

In the UK, educational inequality for women is subtler than in many other parts of the world but still present. It often manifests in biases within the education system, the underrepresentation of women in certain fields, and barriers related to socioeconomic factors.

The Aim:
Highlights the emissions produced by code
Increase awareness of the importance of Green Coding Concepts

The challenge:
Review the Solitaire game which is written in python (https://github.com/GiuseppePerugia/Green-Coding-Competition-FY23)
Use CodeCarbon to measure the emissions of the code as it stands
Identify and correct flaws in the initial code base to reduce emissions

The winners – you will be judged on:
Biggest reduction in emissions
Most creative approach to the challenge

The most innovative & sustainable start up idea that helps tackle the world's most pressing problems.

Build something over-the-top over engineered and held together with string. Use your imagination.

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Want to take your Python skills to the next level? Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to share and build custom web apps for machine learning, data science, and more. Instead of writing Python scripts without a UI, you can create a beautiful web app, complete with widgets and data visualizations, and deploy it for free to the Streamlit Community Cloud. You can even build a fully functional LLM-powered app with just 25 lines of code! Hack with Streamlit this weekend for your chance to win an Arduino Tiny ML Kit for you and each member of your team.

For the individual who impresses the judges with stand-out communication in their pitch.
Prize kindly provided by RS Components