I have about 10 unused Raspberry Pis, so I collected unused monitors as well, and now run a mini code club in my local school. The school's laptops are all locked down to the point that running Python on them that this was the easiest way to provide a Python dev environment.
In my case at least, it's because Python has a strong ecosystem. Everybody's heard of it - parents, kids, and teachers. There are lots of good kid-friendly education materials.
Of course, that begs the question "how did that ecosystem develop in the first place?", but I can't answer that.
It doesn't require a person to change how they think about programming from their college C or Java classes, but is a lot simpler than those two languages.
