Advocacy in schools, volunteers?

[Warren Postma]

Byron Sonne wrote:

>> as a high-school teacher I could open the doors of my classroom to a 
>> communicative individual that knows Linux and that is enthousiastic 
>> in showing the hard stuff and the nice tricks we can perform with 
>> this plateform. Last year I invited a specialist in Java J2EE to give 
>> a little demo that was appreciated. Linux would be a great topic.
>
>
> I think that we'd need to know more about the capabilities and 
> interests of the students. We could whip up some really cool shit but 
> if all they're interested in is haxx0ring their buddies IM clients or 
> really cool graphics programs then I'm not sure what the point would 
> be. Can you find out what would really tickle their fancy?
>
>
One thing I have done is do a day-long thing with grade 9-11 highschool 
students where we:
    (1) take apart and rebuild PCs.
    (2) install Linux on them
    (3) Play games on Linux

They seemed to love it.

Warren

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