Objective
Education is changing fast, and artificial intelligence is opening the door to new ways of learning. Your task in this challenge is to prototype an adaptive quiz engine that changes in difficulty based on user responses and provides tailored explanations. The aim is to advance our Responsible Innovation Goal: Reinvent Learning for a Changing World — making education more personalized, effective, and accessible so that more people can gain the skills they need to succeed in the age of intelligent systems.
In collaboration with OpenAI
We are excited to partner with OpenAI, a global leader in artificial intelligence research and application. OpenAI provides powerful models and tools that enable developers to create applications that adapt, reason, and learn alongside their users.
The winner of this challenge will receive a $300 credit for the OpenAI API
Important Dates
Challenge opens:
September 22, 2025 at 9:00am ET
Challenge closes:
October 5, 2025 at 11:59pm PT
What to Build
Requirements
Your submission should include:
Submissions
We encourage you to work in the open-source spirit. Share your project publicly and tag us:
- Instagram, Threads, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube
- Use hashtag: #MasteryQuest
- Tag: @bletchleyinstitute
Alternatively, if you’d prefer to submit privately, email your repo + video to: masteryquests@bletchley.org
Judging Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated on:
- Creativity – Did you bring a fresh, innovative angle?
- Impact – Does the prototype demonstrate how AI can make education more adpative and effective?
- Execution – Is the prototype functional and well-documented?
- Clarity – Does your demo explain the idea in a way others can understand and build on?
Recognition & Rewards
Winners win prizes! All category winners will receive:
- $300 in credits for OpenAI'sAPI
- Mastery Quest winner badge and certificate to show off on your profile
- Social media feature - your work shared on our channels as a challenge winner
- Blog spotlight - we'll highlight top entries in a featured post
- $1,000 scholarship to Flatiron School's Artificial Intelligence program
Under 21 category winners will also receive:
- $3,000 scholarship to Clarke College
- Guaranteed interview with one of the Bletchley Fellowship apprenticeship partners
Recommended Prototyping Tech Stack
Unsure where to start? Try starting with our rapid AI prototyping tech stack. These are the tools we use most often at the Institute for quickly moving from idea → prototype → demo. You don’t have to use all of them, but they’re excellent building blocks for early career engineers:
- v0, Vue.js or Next.js, Vercel – Rapidly prototype and host web user interfaces. Build clean, modern front-ends and deploy them instantly.
- Cursur – AI powered development environment that accelerates coding and helps you structure your project.
- VS Code + GitHub Copilot – Another great AI-assisted editor for speeding up development, debugging, and experimentation.
- Node.js + Express.js – A lightweight backend and API layer to connect your front-end, databases, and workflows.
- Clerk – Drop-in authentication and user management (sign-up, login, identity).
- n8n – No-code/low-code workflow orchestration. Automate background tasks or connect APIs without heavy lifting.
- OpenAI (LLM) – Power your app with natural language generation, summarization, reasoning, or chat capabilities.
- Zep – Add memory to your AI applications. Store and recall long-form conversations, maintain context, and extract structured topics.
- MongoDB – Flexible NoSQL database for storing persistent application data, user content, and state.
- Render.com – Simple hosting for front-ends, APIs, and workflows all in one place.
