Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
Success is made of 99% failure.
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.