You'll see what I mean when I say these look like real companies, not student projects.
To hire these students: lambdaschool.com/hire
Cadence is beautiful shift-scheduling software for small and medium businesses.
Note how they manage edge cases.
Bckwds is a hiking/climbing trip planner.
Note how they use D3 to visualize the elevation for every trip.
You can read his writeup here: chrisluedtke.github.io/divvy-data.html