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My suggestion:
Instead of having them spend that month doing arithmetic, make them write something that's, say, 50,000 words long. As far as I can tell, the most important non-technical skill that someone is supposed to learn in college is how to write - and it's amazing how many people can't do it.
It never occurred to me to consider completion of NaNoWriMo a credential, but now that I think of it, it actually is.
I know someone who works in HR/recruitment and she told me that having a marathon or similar achievement on your CV makes a big impression on recruiters.
Speaking as a two-time NaNoWriMo winner myself (2009: Not Taking This Seriously, 2010: Kevin Levitin and the Special Snowflake Syndrome), I don't consider it an impressive credential. Writing something good during NaNoWriMo is impressive, but merely generating the 50,000 words is not difficult as long as you keep a sufficiently low quality standard.