Challenge: give an existing (ugly) website a facelift. My choice was our student association's website. They improved it afterwards. Before pic below.
Working website here :
http://e1495595.webdev.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/Design/SiteWebSogeecom/nouvelles.html
Our teacher also had us blog about the process of creating the project:
http://e1495595.webdev.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/Design/projetsession
The Sogeecom today:
https://sogeecom.org