Looking for a high-impact way to introduce coding—with a clear path to robotics and advanced programming? This unique, classroom-tested activity blends coding, problem solving, and real-world application in a way students immediately buy into. In this lesson, students design a city using Microsoft Excel and then learn how to code paths, directions, and movements out of the city step by step. The city in this resource was inspired by one we physically built in class, but no physical materi