I ordered Arduboy weeks ago and got in love with the format, hence also love Pokitto 
Been playing with arduinos since 2009 and graduated from Computer Engineering since 2011, moved to Norway from Chile at beginning of this year to work as an Innovator in an innovation garage 
Sounds like this is right up your alley. I get a little nervous hearing about all this programming talk. Wondering if my son and I will be able to figure it out. But at the same time, very excited.
Children now are wired from born to love logical stuff and technology. The thing now is just to know if they really want to go that path