Yes, the technical side is definitely something I want to focus heavily on. Thanks for all the project ideas, it will certainly help me learn a lot :)

bkdoubleohseven

bitcoin

Advice for high schoolers?

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!

You'll learn lot of things just doing this.