Comment by why5s

Anecdote: I attempted to volunteer with the Microsoft TEALs Program at a local school. I'm not sure what we did wrong but the instructor never really utilized myself or the other volunteers. For about a month, he asked us to "review the syllabus" and "consider ideas" to implement with the classroom. We pitched a few ideas ranging from writing simple sorting algorithms to building a rudimentary search engine... But the school year kinda just progressed. We never met with any of the students. E-mail response time spanned weeks. And at some point, he asked us to join some "Advisory Board". So I more or less checked out since it all seemed kinda lame.