Yes, it's for younger girls for sure. Arduino is really going to open her eyes, especially if you can gather data and show how statistics can be used for traini

Yes, it's for younger girls for sure. Arduino is really going to open her eyes, especially if you can gather data and show how statistics can be used for training and informing computers to help us. If she's interested in programming I think Ruby has the nicest introduction (I'm partial to Python as you get access to a lot of sciency libraries) but I've run through this with 9-12 year olds successfully: http://tryruby.org http://tryruby.org