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by runjake 1925 days ago
Do you actually want to introduce young kids to programming or programming robotics?

The two things are different.

Scratch has proven to be a wonderful programming introduction for young kids. You can even control physical robots with it:

https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Hardware_that_can_Connect_...

There are also numerous Scratch tutorials online where you program a virtual robot on the screen (eg. moveLeft(1),moveDown(2), and so on.

The "game-ish" projects you list sound great, but are generally beyond introductory programming for kids level.