Games were may path into tech too. Though I don't think it's generally applicable. Having tried with nephews and other kids I think it takes a certain combination of desire to create, grit, and community feedback. And/or I'm just a bad teacher.
Problem with games is that you need to have actual artistic inclining to produce something decent.
It looks cool and is a good attraction, but people who could be actually good tech programmers will be offputted by reality of making games - which involves a lot of drawing, making sure it looks good and slowly iterating on boring gameplay till it is not boring.
