Building a community-based participatory research project on hive will be quite interesting and will further project hive to the world. You can say this is me being selfish as a hive user.
On the other hand, your students also stand to benefit from the immutability of the blockchain or even get exposed to blockchain tech for the first time. If you ask me, I will say bring it on.
As a matter of fact, my older son managed to simulate thousands of Large Hadron Collider collisions giving rise to the production of a Higgs boson when he was six.
Really? Would be interesting to see what else he can do at an older age. Was it intentional or just some surreptitious discoveries?
My youngest students (i.e. the bachelor ones) already use my blogs as a basis to get details on particle physics. At such a level of study in which they are not experts in quantum mechanics, special relativity and field theory (and the associated math background), this is by far sufficient. Moreover, if is good to mention at this stage that the research project is fully adapted to this.
I am still unsure about injecting the students in any process that could be ported to Hive. Their internship is quite advanced already, and I don't want to change the habits they built during the last two months. However, constructing something from scratch on Hive may be what I will try, if I (we?) decide to move on.
In fact, I just asked him to type this and that. He did it and then I explained him what he did. At the end, this was just to show off ;)
Doing something on hive would be great.
I hope you'll tell the story to your son of how he was able to model collision at a tender age. 😅
He actually knows already :)