Yeah - it might be good to try to talk with some people who've used Espruino for teaching - if you can find them - and see what they'd want in a kit. Education is definitely a good place for Espruino. The learning curve is definitely a lot less steep than other microcontroller platforms, yet it's powerful enough to do real stuff. The console itself makes just such a difference in lowering the barrier to entry. And it's javascript, which is an incredibly useful language...
Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
Yeah - it might be good to try to talk with some people who've used Espruino for teaching - if you can find them - and see what they'd want in a kit. Education is definitely a good place for Espruino. The learning curve is definitely a lot less steep than other microcontroller platforms, yet it's powerful enough to do real stuff. The console itself makes just such a difference in lowering the barrier to entry. And it's javascript, which is an incredibly useful language...