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Phase: Research Missions: Explore Existing Programs

Google HelpOuts is an online coaching and mentoring platform

Google's HelpOuts is a marketplace for trading expertise, coaching and even mentoring. There are already some existing offerings for elderly and youth —opportunity to add more?

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Google's HelpOuts platform lets people with specific expertese sell, or give, their time to others. 

Many of the existing offerings have much in common with some other research postings in this challenge. There are language lessons, tech coaching, and fitness things. 

Maybe HelpOuts can be a place, when we get there, for some prototyping? 
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Great thought for prototyping, Nick. And folks could also try something out while we're in the Research phase and share back what they learn. We're big fans of 'researching by doing' :^)

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