"Government agents can't bribe minors" Government gets around a lot of rules by paying contractors for things which they acquire or develop in unscrupulous way

"Government agents can't bribe minors" Government gets around a lot of rules by paying contractors for things which they acquire or develop in unscrupulous ways. We had hacker groups in my school. I wouldn't trust most of them if there were large amounts of money on the line or opportunities to have secrets/power others didn't have. There's always a set that would go for that doing even more damage than the average older person. "Companies can't have bizarre rules about intellectual property and side projects." They can. They'll just have to get the parents' consent. The kids are then forced to choose to not participate to avoid the conditions or participate despite the conditions. Most will participate. I agree with you, though, that we need more programs hitting schools getting them more activities to do around building and coding things. There's a lot of potential. Funny that you were coding things on TI-84's cuz we were doing same thing on older calculators to sneak fun into classes where no gaming devices were allowed. :) Plenty of stuff we were doing mainly limited by lack of people who knew things and money. Also, you'd get posers or folks overselling their skills that end up wasting people's time or making them think a sub-field has more bullshitters than it does. Having good resources from real talent easily accessible helps counter that a bit. It's why I like the makerspace movement so much, esp recent trend of combining them with libraries: https://tascha.uw.edu/2014/06/libraries-makerspaces-a-revolution/ https://tascha.uw.edu/2014/06/libraries-makerspaces-a-revolu...