I'm starting to wonder if we promote people in the corporate world for their ability to blow hot air...

This is absolutely what we do. Success in big business is more about how political you can be, not how competent you are.

What coding language have you been learning or is "scratch" considered to be the language - it's not something I'm familiar with but if it helped your daughter get into, I might introduce it to my boys when they're a little older.