Keep it small of course, but more interesting projects to work on would be better: data manipulation/generation, tiny games(Java4K?), and even just silly stuff(like 90s websites).
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I think for activities, you maybe want to go bigger than having people print out their name in fancy ways - it will make for more interesting submissions, allow others to see cool ways of doing relatively simple stuff.