[karnajani]

Seriously. All I could think is,this is one of the world's toughest problems?

I get the spirit behind the idea of giving kids money to tinker, but this creates what's equivalent to a programmer who has only learned from stackoverflow and w3schools. There is a lot missing that's still part of the standard college curriculum, and the worlds problems will most likely need just as much theory as practical understanding.

[JacksonGariety]

Maybe this isn't because the kids were given freedom from school.

Maybe it's because the person funding them came from Stanford.