I would like to know your all thoughts and advice on high schoolers wanting to get into ln, nodes, and btc in general. For bitcoin, I do not mean the trading aspects but rather the technical aspects such as the architecture, etc.
If you're interested in the technical side of Bitcoin then definitely grab a laptop and try to setup some stuff (bitcoin core node, a lightning node, btc pay server, mempool.space self hosted instance, etc... anything you want).
Then you can try to hack around it, make yourself a small web donation page using those tools and post it here!