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Thanks for your feedback. I agree that it may be too much, but I am also reluctant to fall back to a gamified computer activity. I am going to see what the teacher thinks, but I will definitely take your comments to heart. My experience with cub scouts is that it is easy to overestimate how much complexity kids can handle in an activity.

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Just FYI the Minecraft activity isn't gamified computer activity, it is actual programming that uses a Block based language. So it has a lot of stuff, like loops, conditionals but it is more visual and allows the kids to see what their code does by watching how their character moves. The premise is that you have to move your character from one part of the map to another and avoid the obsticals. You do this with the Block based language utilizing commands such as move left, move right, move forward, move back. But then there are loops that allow you to move in a given (or multiple) direction multiple times.

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