I think doing well on Kaggle competitions would already be a good enough indicator for smart companies so it might be a good idea to have student teams do those

I think doing well on Kaggle competitions would already be a good enough indicator for smart companies so it might be a good idea to have student teams do those on the side. Might be a decent idea to inform students that these exist. I feel like this applies even more for other degrees like econ(ometrics) (since I feel like a good math grad should not have trouble getting any data science job).