[JoshCalbet]

I'd suggest to go trough the fundamentals. Make sure they understand the workflow on Django and a project that they can actually take into production, don't make it too broad but care about the fundamentals, so they'll be able to solve their own problems in the future. It doesn't pay well in the long run to make a project too broad. I'm not sure if Django is the right thing to start but that depends on your motivation. Think about python notebooks, for instance how to connect to a well known API, to grab some data and play with it using data structures, plotting. Things that they can see without investing too much time in server configuration. Most probably you already know it, but colab.research.google.com is a ready to code python notebook