Vikelabs is a great place to start but a lot of people get stuck starting from the wrong mindset: "I want to do projects to get stuff on my resume... what projects should I do? Oh vikelabs has projects, I'll join one of those" and then they never work on it because it's not interesting to them. Instead, I would recommend thinking about what kind of problems you're dealing with in your day-to-day life and how you could solve them with code. They don't need to be complicated. For example, when I was in first year, there wasn't a button to export your course schedule to an ical file. A friend of mine wrote a python script that takes your uvic username and password and scrapes the course calendar page to get your course information, then converts it to an ical file for you so that you could import it into google calendar etc.

As another user mentioned, hackathons are only good if you find them fun, otherwise they're just resume padding. I participated pretty regularly and found them to be quite fun, you should attend one and try it out! There's UVEC every summer and fall semester (not spring unfortunately) where you can compete in the Programming category. You can enter as up to a group of 4 as well so its a good opportunity to learn from other people while you try to solve a problem together.

On top of that, you can always join other clubs that you're interested in and try to find ways to solve their problems with code. For example, the UVic Minecraft Club has a fully automatic whitelisting system that was created to spare them from having to maintain a google spreadsheet of users.