One of my earliest project I completed as a kid was a School Management program in Microsoft Access. As a kid, my father wished to teach me basics of databases. So he started teaching me basics of Microsoft Access. Being a self-motivated learner since childhood, as I took pace, I started coming up with different ideas which I could implement using Access. One of such ideas was a School Management system! I really adored the idea and insisted my father to assist me while I would go on trying my idea.
Then, under my father’s guidance, I created a school management program in Microsoft Access. I was just 12 years old then. The program had grades, classes, scoring, attendance and so on. I think that project was a milestone project which helped me to understand basic concepts of database, programming, logic and design.
I even approached a few schools including my own school, to “sell them” (for free!?) my school management program. However, in the early 2000s schools in my city (or in India in general) seemed averse to the idea of computerizing their administration. They were still using paper notebooks and “ledgers” for all administrative purpose. Maybe it was too early for that (or I was ahead of time).
Still today, it seems like a cool idea for junior or middle school students to start learning about data, logic, programming and design using Microsoft Access. This could be a completely new, unknown and unresearched approach towards teaching kids about databases, since I have never heard of anyone teaching kids about databases using Microsoft Access.