The assumption here is programming in some way is special. What's actually special is building things. While in school, my school principal had our school host

The assumption here is programming in some way is special. What's actually special is building things. While in school, my school principal had our school host science and art exhibitions every year. We would routinely attend other science and art contests at other schools. The common pattern there? You will see the same 10% population in every school participating everywhere else. To break this pattern, our principal bought in a concept of team work, basically to pair up 90% people with the participating 10%. It was a colossal failure, apart from the fact they were teams on paper, it was essentially those 10% people doing all the work while everybody else in just for the participant tag. The issue here is human behavior and psychology. The assumption that merely teaching programming will likely build master makers, automation identifiers out of every school. In reality a bare regular 10% of the kids are likely to have the motivation and discipline to see things through.