Ask HN: Who is hiring high schoolers?
Most companies don't really consider hiring high schoolers as interns, making it hard for us to get real world experience in a company at this age. Who is?
Most fun/tech companies love helping kids. We coach a lego robotics team and have gotten lots of tours, demos and even a meeting space for our team at a local startup.
All by calling, stopping by, following up and asking politely.
An internship would be a little different, but if you get to know people at a company it makes it much easier.
- What have you learned on your own?
- What excites / interests you?
- What do you hope to learn?
- Why is [company] the right fit for you?
- What does success look like at the end of your internship?
- How much time can you commit to an internship?
- What sort of compensation, if any, do you need?
Businesses that typically employ under-18 people are prepared to deal with all that. Other places don't want the bother and the risk, even if there wouldn't actually be any trouble.
I'm currently working on a CMS-ish style scheduling platform for CTF competitions, an ptrace-based application sandbox in Rust, an online judge system (like a programming assignment grader), and an IRC server in Rust with Tokio and futures.
I have a good amount of experience with cybersecurity and algorithms and data structures too despite a lack of formal education in them ;)
Website (just some links): http://chaosagent.io CV: http://chaosagent.io/resume.pdf