GeekDad Salutes 11-Year-Old Network Administrator | Geekdad from Wired.com
From GeekDad, an 11-year-old takes on network administration duties for his school:
Jon Penn, a sixth grader at a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., is Exhibit A. When Victory Baptist School's previous network admin jumped ship, 11-year-old Jon decided to help out his mother, the school librarian who suddenly found herself responsible for computer support, by taking the reins.
Jon set to removing viruses from the antiquated machines and installed a firewall and filtering software as a stopgap measure while he looked forward to instituting centralized system management. Along the way he became what may well be the nation's youngest IT guy, and what's very obviously any geek parent's dream come true.