Create volunteer management apps for Malagasy nonprofits
Malagasy nonprofits lose 40% of volunteers to poor coordination. Can you design an app that keeps them engaged?
Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2026
21 real-world projects across 13 technologies, built by 41 people in 10 challenges. See the skills each team proved, then join the next externship-style challenge.
Each page lists portfolio projects built with it, the people who built them and the challenges you can join next.
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Externship-style projects with mentors. Free to join, on your own or with a team.
Malagasy nonprofits lose 40% of volunteers to poor coordination. Can you design an app that keeps them engaged?
Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2026
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Nov 19 to Nov 22, 2026
Winners first, then the most complete projects.

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Knowledge Graphs, with 10 projects, followed by Natural Language Processing (7). Every page here lists its projects, the people who built them and the skills they used.
Each solution is tagged from what the team actually built and submitted: their description, slides and documents. A page appears once it has at least 3 projects or open challenges.
It works like an externship: a short, remote team project on a real problem, with mentors. Challenges are free to join and unpaid. Every submitted solution gets a public page you can show to employers and schools.
Yes. 3 challenges are open or coming up, starting with Create volunteer management apps for Malagasy nonprofits. Join on your own or with a team; it is free.
Join a team, prove your skills on a real problem and get mentored by people who do this for a living.
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