Given their financial constraints, demonstrating to them how they could use a Raspberry Pi-level device to create a website or business accessible to people around the world might inspire.

There's an unspoken dogma that without a $1000 phone and pricey Mac, you can't be a creator.

Alternatively, demonstrate a very cheap Youtube or podcast production setup and show them how they could do a channel inexpensively.

Common theme is that the barriers to entry in many digital fields are lower than expected.

I've also had kids amazed with tools like React Native Expo where they can make a "real" app that lives permanently on their phone after the exercise in just a few hours (starting with some boilerplate code that they learn to customize). Walked a group of 10-year-olds through the process and they each came away with a very basic app on their phones that looked unique.