A Tells people who don't have a site that having one is a great way to stand out on a resume.
B Gives lots of inspiration, most of which will be open source so students can learn about web-dev.
C Makes people accessible to recruiters and headhunters more than just a linkedin
There was also talks of linking to Hackathon github repos to give people an idea of the projects being done there. I'll just append that idea onto this.
https://github.com/HackathonHackers/personal-sites
Inspired by that repo.
Would be a great idea because:
A Tells people who don't have a site that having one is a great way to stand out on a resume. B Gives lots of inspiration, most of which will be open source so students can learn about web-dev. C Makes people accessible to recruiters and headhunters more than just a linkedin