As a teacher, I highly encourage you to pursue this. You will meet some wonderful students, and some of them will run with whatever you show them. There is a pretty good chance you will change a number of students' lives for the better. (I hate the "If I just reach one student..." mindset. You will reach a number of students.)
One of the best ways to move forward is to visit a school where you want to volunteer, and look for a teacher to partner with. The teacher can help recruit students, navigate administrative issues, and create opportunities during the school day for students to practice what you show them.
If you really want to focus on at-risk youth, I encourage you to teach something that can be done entirely with open source software, on non-current hardware. A few years ago I taught several groups of students to install ubuntu on old computers, and then taught a couple python classes. Students ran with it, and some are starting to take tech work more seriously. Had I written a grant and gotten a bunch of expensive macs in the classroom, few if any of my students would have been able to do anything more once the class was over.
One of the best ways to move forward is to visit a school where you want to volunteer, and look for a teacher to partner with. The teacher can help recruit students, navigate administrative issues, and create opportunities during the school day for students to practice what you show them.
If you really want to focus on at-risk youth, I encourage you to teach something that can be done entirely with open source software, on non-current hardware. A few years ago I taught several groups of students to install ubuntu on old computers, and then taught a couple python classes. Students ran with it, and some are starting to take tech work more seriously. Had I written a grant and gotten a bunch of expensive macs in the classroom, few if any of my students would have been able to do anything more once the class was over.
Happy to talk more, here or privately.