Hmmmm I was always taught it is not really a decent thing to brag about whatever good you have done. But I think it should be ok, if I just share here with you something that I have been doing over the past few days. It is ok, if you consider my entry invalid for "Syndicate" competition. But here is what I have actually done and been planning to do even before I registered on GOG:
During the past few days I have been acting as a lecturer/excursion leader for a big bunch of schoolkids in a children library.
The excursion/lectures were about my major, which is engineering, and therefore I was invited to do it. That is an FOC (or voluntary) work to do and all of us (a team of around 15 people of my age and sometimes older) had almost no experience of dealing with kids (ok, except for one guy, but he kept it secret).
Now, do not get me wrong - I DO have teaching experience (or noone would risk inviting me to something this important), but it is only within university framework. All the time before the thing started I was a little hesitant - will the kids like my stories? Will I be able to keep them entertained AND disciplined enough to listen at the same time? I mean, I would like them to have fun, but also to maintain a level which would be understandable and "right" (simple, but not wrong for the sake of being simple).
So when the thing took place we were all a bit nervous, but eager and the best happened. Kids were mostly very interested, very responsive and attentive. We had all ages from 5 to 17, 150-200 people totally. So there was another challenge - how does one pick the right words to speak about engineering to someone who mostly talks "mom and dad"? And how does one talk to guys and girls, who are feeling they are the center of the world - the wisest and the eldest? The obvious answer is - trial and error. Fortunately, the errors were kept to a minimum and the trials were mostly successful. I had 80-90% positive feedback from all participants and onlookers. And that made me happy. This is the happiness I wanted to remember just now and share with you guys a bit - this should be the right thread, shouldn't it?
I wish good luck to all entrants and want to say Thank You to the gifter.