What you describe was my summer job two years in a row. https://projectfun.digipen.edu/workshops/courses/video-game-programming

My favorite was teaching the level 2 course where I taught kids about making 2D sprite based games in C#. We basically give them a very simple 2D engine and then teach them all the programming and math required to move things around, detect collisions and perform general game logic. It's really fun to teach because I love programming and (almost) every kid there is very eager to learn. It's really cool to see how fast many of them pick things up simply because they're motivated and truly curious.

Oh, did I mention they do this in 2 weeks? The first week is heavy teaching and the second week they make their own games. These kids were anywhere from late middle school to high school.

My thoughts exactly. 12.5mph and a 6 mile range? My bike can go at least 7 times as far, and faster. Plus I get a little exercise and don't waste electricity. With a 6 mile range doesn't this mean you have to charge it wherever you're going? Or if your round trip is less than 3 miles one way can't you just walk (and then not have to worry about carrying this thing/locking it up)? Are people that lazy - I mean "busy"?

Untrue, a group of people is NOT necessarily a strength. Groups encourage slacking off and discourage taking responsibility. Or in short, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

My first thought is Afterlives - http://www.last.fm/music/Afterlives

"William Barrett, the musician behind this sometimes dreamy, sometimes jarring collection of songs, had recorded no previous work. In fact, he had never written anything else, never played music. He simply decided to record an album one day, and did it. He had no preconceptions, no precedent. He just did it."

TFA: "[...] section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which grants police powers to remove persons attending or preparing for a "rave" (defined as playing amplified music "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats," during the night)."

Well, apparently it is.

[pet peeve alert] All good points, but BMI is a bullshit scale.

don't worry, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2175 has the classic pink theme, for great justice.

Mars Express article link http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMZ0B57ESD_0.html