Compensating minors?

[Kallen Tsikalas]

Hello Everyone!

Thank you for your introductions and posts! :o)

My name is Kallen Tsikalas.  I am the Director of On-line Learning at
Computers for Youth, a NYC-based non-profit that provides underserved
children and families with home computers.  Working with partners (thank you
NY Cares; I know you’re also on this list!), we also provide training and a
technical support hotline, and we are in the process of developing content
FOR AND WITH the families we serve.

In such, I am co-leading a handful of intergenerational community technology
design teams.  We are considering compensating our team-members (both
children and adults) for their work in designing and reviewing learning
resources.

Does anyone here have experience compensating young people (under age 15)?
Specifically, I am wondering about:

       * Legal issues re: child labor?
       * Appropriate types of compensation?

In terms of compensation, we are considering a variety of non-monetary
“payments,” e.g., educational software that the children would select; gift
certificates, savings bonds.  Have you used others that have been
particularly well-received?

Please write to me or the listserv if you do have experience with this.
Thank you!
--kallen :o)

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Kallen Tsikalas,
Director of On-line Learning
COMPUTERS FOR YOUTH (CFY)
2112 Broadway, Suite #513 * NY, NY 10023
http://www.cfy.org

If all goes well...
We will take our children’s hands
    so they may feel
    protected and our gentleness
We will share our games
We will surrender our kisses
I will laugh
    I will sing
I will complain of work’s hassles
I’ll count my gray hairs
    and until the very end
    I will delight
in the adventure
of the sensation
    of emotion
             and thought.

--Juan Antillon Montealegre
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