Hi @trostparadox. This is a very nice idea and I wish you a great success with it.
For anything STEM-related, please know that there is a community here on hive with a lot of STEM-enthusiasts (with some of them being in fact STEM-professionals in their life), who will be very happy to help and discuss (don't hesitate to check STEMsocial and reach us on discord). In the past, we had a lot of (STEM-related) ideas to be built on the HIVE blockchain, but time and help were required. Maybe some of those ideas could be revived if any of your student(s) would be willing to help. Who knows ? It is in any case better to discuss this live. I will try to reach you out on discord, but feel free to do the same (lemouth#8260).
Cheers and good luck!