Tillyard
Build experience
Pick something to do that leaves a line on your résumé, and see who confirms it before you start.
See what you would do
Every option lists the steps, so you know the work before you begin.
Know who confirms it
Someone besides you confirms the work, and each option names who that is.
Get a line for your résumé
Once it's confirmed, your Record shows what you did and who checked it.
11 of 38 are open now. Show only those
Build something
Make a project of your own and show it so other people can check it.
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Prove what you built The Proof Sheet
Open nowWrite down what your project will do and three tests for it before you start, then build it and share the finished link. Tillyard dates your plan, so anyone can see it came first.
Who confirms it: Tillyard dated your plan before your finished link was added.
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Build something with a team The Joint Byline
Open nowTwo to four members build one thing together and agree up front who does which part. Each person's part is confirmed by the others who worked on it.
Who confirms it: The members who worked on it, inside Projects.
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Get a fix into an open project The Open Counter
Not open yetContribute a change to an open-source project run by a community or a nonprofit, and get it accepted by its own maintainers. You paste the link and write 200 words on what changed.
Who confirms it: The project's own maintainers accepted it.
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Check a site for barriers Access Check
Not open yetReview five public pages of an open-source project's site for accessibility barriers, with a keyboard-only pass and a screen-reader pass. You write up what you found and file it as public issues.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges reproduced three of your findings, picked by Tillyard.
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Show a design in two versions The Case Study
Not open yetMake a design or creative piece in two versions and write a short note on your choices. Two students open both versions and each names one change they can see.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges opened both versions and typed what they saw.
Work with data
Answer a question with public numbers and show your method.
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Keep a forecasting notebook Forecasting notebook
Open nowWrite your own questions about public outcomes, say how likely you think each one is, and settle each from a public source when its day comes. Tillyard dates every entry, so nothing can be added back afterwards.
Who confirms it: Tillyard dated each entry on the day it was written and locked it after 24 hours.
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Answer a question with public data The Counting Room
Not open yetPick a question and a public dataset, then write a 600-word brief with three numbers, a method note and a notebook link. Two students work out your headline number from the same source.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges worked out the headline number themselves from the source.
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Re-run a published table The Replication Desk
Not open yetReproduce one table from a published study using open data in a public notebook, and add one check of your own. Only a match is ever shown; a miss stays private.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges re-ran it and typed their figures before seeing yours.
Write and speak
Put your name on something an outside reader, editor or audience accepted.
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Write a paper for Tillyard Research Write for Tillyard Research
Open nowWrite a paper for the student publication. Students who chose to read may read it, and an editor reviews it after you submit it.
Who confirms it: Read by students at other colleges and approved by the editor, inside Tillyard Research.
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Place an opinion piece The Op-Ed Desk
Not open yetWrite a 650-word opinion piece off this site and get it published by an outlet that has an editor. Only published pieces count.
Who confirms it: The outlet's editor published it.
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Rewrite a public text so anyone can follow it Plain Words
Not open yetRewrite one federal general-information text so a general reader can follow it, keeping every number and obligation. The official original stays linked above your rewrite.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges checked three numbers or obligations against the original, line by line.
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Give a five-minute talk The Five-Minute Floor
Not open yetPost a title, an abstract and the full text of a five-minute talk, give it at a scheduled group table, and take questions in writing.
Who confirms it: Counted from Tillyard's table logs.
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Present at a student symposium On the Programme
Not open yetPresent a poster or talk at a student research event that publishes its programme. You enter the title as the programme prints it.
Who confirms it: The event's own programme lists it.
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Get your work accepted elsewhere In Print Elsewhere
Not open yetHave a story, poem, essay, photo essay or film accepted by an outside publication, show or festival that names its editor or jury. Nothing that charges to appear.
Who confirms it: An outside editor or jury accepted it.
Teach
Help other people learn something, counted from Tillyard's own records or followed by readers.
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Host a problem-solving table Worked-problem table
Open nowHost open group tables that work through public problem sets in a subject you have finished. Groups only, never one to one.
Who confirms it: Counted from Tillyard's own attendance logs.
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Write a how-to guide The How-To
Not open yetWrite a tutorial for a technique on your own site or repository. Two members who do not know the technique follow it and say whether they reached the result.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges followed it cold and typed the result they reached.
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Teach a three-part series A three-part table series
Not open yetTeach one skill across three linked group tables, with the outline published first. Attendees answer one question in the thread after each part.
Who confirms it: Counted from Tillyard's own attendance logs.
Lead
Run something for other people, counted from attendance or confirmed by the people you led.
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Host study sessions Host a table
Open nowHost scheduled group study sessions for other members. Tillyard counts who came.
Who confirms it: Counted from Tillyard's own attendance logs.
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Record a role you held The Minute Book
Open nowFor an organization at your own college, file your role and term so a second officer or the adviser can confirm it.
Who confirms it: An officer of the organization, inside Organizations.
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Lead a reading circle Reading circle
Not open yetChoose a topic, publish a reading list of open-access links with three questions a session, and lead three or more sessions at group tables.
Who confirms it: Counted from Tillyard's own attendance logs.
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Lead a journal circle Journal circle
Not open yetThe same as a reading circle, with one open-access paper a session read against a set of appraisal questions.
Who confirms it: Counted from Tillyard's own attendance logs.
Compete
Enter a set round and be scored by other entrants against published criteria. No fee, no prize.
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Write a decision memo The Case Table
Not open yetRead a house-written case about a fictional public body, built on a real public dataset, and file a 1,000-word decision memo with one table. You also score three other memos.
Who confirms it: Scored blind by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
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Write a policy memo The Memo Round
Not open yetWrite an 800-word policy memo to a fictional office on a real public problem, with at least four sources. You also score three other memos.
Who confirms it: Scored blind by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
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Answer a data question in a round The Counting Round
Not open yetWork from one named public dataset and one question, and write a 600-word brief with three numbers and a notebook link. Each scorer works out the headline figure before seeing yours.
Who confirms it: Scored by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
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Write a pitch note The Pitch Note
Not open yetFrom a fact sheet for a fictional company, write a 500-word note: back it or not, three reasons, and the one number you would ask for next. It is a student exercise, not advice.
Who confirms it: Scored blind by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
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Share a design for critique The Crit
Not open yetFrom a fictional brief, share a design hosted elsewhere with a 300-word rationale for your choices. Other entrants score it against published criteria.
Who confirms it: Scored by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
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Build something in 48 hours Build Weekend
Not open yetA one-word theme is posted on a Friday evening. In 48 hours, alone, make something in a new public repository or document and write a 300-word walk-through.
Who confirms it: Scored by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
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Appraise a study The Methods Round
Not open yetFrom a description of a fictional study, write a 600-word appraisal: the design, what threatens it, and what to ask the authors. It is a student exercise.
Who confirms it: Scored blind by three other entrants against criteria published before the round opened.
Serve the public
Give time to public projects, charities and public bodies, confirmed by their own records.
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Prepare taxes as a volunteer The Tax Table
Open nowTake the IRS volunteer tests on the IRS's own site, sign up with a local free tax-help site on your own, and serve in season. The site coordinator confirms your role and dates.
Who confirms it: The site coordinator, from the sponsor's own email address, through Service.
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Transcribe for a public archive The Field Ledger
Not open yetContribute to a public crowd project under your own account, then write a 600-word field note on one document or on how the project keeps its quality up.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges opened the public pages and typed a quoted line and a date.
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Translate for an open project Translation sprint
Not open yetOver a two-week dated log, translate interface text or documentation for a community-run open project whose own reviewers approve translations. No machine translation.
Who confirms it: The project's own reviewers accepted it.
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Improve Wikipedia The Wikipedia Desk
Not open yetMake sourced edits to an article in your field under your own account, and say on your user page who you are connected to. The edits must still stand 30 days later.
Who confirms it: Wikipedia's own editors left the edits standing.
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File a public comment The Docket
Not open yetWrite and file your own comment on a proposed federal rule, in your own words. Tillyard lists no dockets and shares no wording.
Who confirms it: The agency posted it.
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Do one task for a nonprofit The Pro Bono Counter
Not open yetDo one scoped task for a charity or public body that wrote the scope itself and accepted the volunteer.
Who confirms it: An officer of the organization, from its own email address, through Service.
Show a skill
Keep a dated record of something you practise, or back up a skill with something a reader can open.
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Keep a field notebook Field notebook
Open nowWrite dated observations, such as a bird count, a stream reading or a night-sky log, and link each to the public record where one exists. Tillyard dates every entry.
Who confirms it: Tillyard dated each entry on the day it was written and locked it after 24 hours.
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Keep a practice log Practice log
Open nowWrite one short dated entry each time you practise something, such as a language, an instrument or drawing: what you did, for how long, and what changed. Tillyard dates every entry.
Who confirms it: Tillyard dated each entry on the day it was written and locked it after 24 hours.
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Study for an outside exam The Exam Table
Open nowStart or join a three-week study table for an outside exam whose issuer keeps its own public page. If you sit it, you can add what you hold to your own Record.
Who confirms it: Nobody here.
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Work a practice case The Sample Case
Not open yetWork one house-written brief built on fictional or public facts in your own workbook, such as an accounting cycle from 40 invented transactions. Two students read your totals.
Who confirms it: Two students at other colleges opened the workbook and typed the totals they found.