Fortunately, Open Chemistry has been selected as a mentoring organization in this year’s Google Summer of Code. Students can get paid to write code for Avogadro and related open chemistry projects (e.g., cclib, Open Babel, Horton)
Some ideas are at GSoC Ideas 2021 - wiki.openchemistry.org
Suggestions on applying: Applying to GSoC - wiki.openchemistry.org
Interested? Start a new discussion topic. Student applications start 29 March 2021 through 13 April 2021, but the earlier, the better.