For context for education, we do have a zk lecture that might be fitting! Specifically it's a one and a half hour onramp from basic set membership proofs all the way up to zkemail (zkiap.aayushg.com)
For uni students, more simple end to end crypto projects will be highest return. We have various project lists at aayushg.com/ideas > crypto (broader crypto ideas) and github.com/zkemail > ideas
Apart from zkiap.com, I've found many students internationallly don't know about basic courses, libgen, or scihub which are all critical
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