Adam Chandley, now a high school senior, is one of those students who learned to program routers.

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One of them is Jonny Cohen, a high school senior, celebrated green entrepreneur, Ashoka Youth Venture award winner, and creator of GreenShields.

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This can be valuable experience and, indeed, one study found that 78.3% of senior executives competed on high school athletic teams.

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In the clinic one afternoon, I joined him as he saw a seventeen-year-old high school senior named Janelle, who had been diagnosed with CF at the age of six and had been under his care ever since.

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