Machine Learning is a broad and fascinating field. It has applications in an incredibly wide variety of application areas. It's importance is likely to grow, as more and more areas turn to it as a way of dealing with the massive amounts of data available. Funny enough, it's extremely difficult to explain why the use of an algorithm without understanding is a waste of time. I'm giving lectures on Machine Learning to Software Engineering majors and I designed special assignments for each standard algo. To make it more engaging each assignment has a new topic, from image processing to computational neuroscience. I also launched the Kaggle competition to explain students this simple idea. Assignment examples and competition results will be presented.