I'm planning on "hiring" my younger brother to do some work for me during his Spring Break in a few months. He's 16, and has some tech skills, but his school is not very technical and so he could use more opportunities to learn from folks. I thought I'd have him do some QA and some light programming (he's a fairly new but competent pythonista). I say "hire" because I want to add some incentive to learning enough to get a summer job.
Can you think of tasks that might be good for him to do? Maybe you have an open source project that you could mentor him on, and in so doing, gain a contributor. If you can think of something that you wished you had known when you started hacking, I'd appreciate if you'd please leave me a comment.