We purchased this kit for our 9 year old son. He surprised me with how much he got out of it.
We read the story, which introduced a character that lacks social emotional understanding and goes through a journey to discover emotions. Our son then worked to figure out the circuitry to put together the robot and lo and behold, he had a working robot that reacted to the conductive dough mini monsters we built (the cut outs were cute).
I didn't think much of it until I asked him what he learned from the kit, and he gave me a detailed understanding of the mind-body connection and how emotions were processed from sensory input. He surprised me with how much he understood! So all in all, great job on teaching my kiddo!