At my university, We had a program called SPLASH! that let us teach classes on anything we wanted to about 2000 local high school students. Now, I'm not under t

At my university, We had a program called SPLASH! that let us teach classes on anything we wanted to about 2000 local high school students. Now, I'm not under the impression that my 1hr class did anything but make students see that they could use the command line; real learning takes time and continuous investment. But it did show all these high schoolers that there were a bunch of people seriously excited about learning. Why can't a high school host something similar? Possibly liability. One effect of broader community engagement might be that folks are more likely to vote for tax increases to fund schools.