Samaira Mehta
{{Infobox person | name = | occupation = Coder, inventor, chief executive officer | years_active = 2016–present | known_for = CoderBunnyz } age = 11
Samaira Mehta is an American coder and inventor. She is the founder and chief executive officer of CoderBunnyz.
Life
Mehta is from Santa Clara, California.[1] Her father is an engineer.[2] She began coding when she was 6 years old with her father as her teacher. She created the board game CoderBunnyz, with the help of her little brother, to teach other children how to code.[3] She designed the game over the course of a year.[4] Mehta speaks at workshops and conferences including at Microsoft, Intel, and Google.[3] She first started presenting at workshops at the Santa Clara City Library.[4] She spoke at the 2019 C2 Montréal Conference.[5] Mehta aims to eliminate gender bias and increase the number of women in engineering.[6]
CoderBunnyz
The name, CoderBunnyz, combines her interest in board games and coding with bunnies, her favorite animal.[1] The game provides instruction on basic concepts in artificial intelligence and Java.[2] It includes five major topics including training, back propagation, inference, adaptive learning, and autonomous.[4] The STEM game is used in over 106 schools.[7]
Awards and honors
In 2016, Mehta won the $2,500 second-place prize at Think Tank Learning's Pitchfest. She received a letter from former first lady Michelle Obama.[3]
References
- ^ a b Cheng, Cynthia (2015-09-09). "Second-Grade Student Creates Board Game to Teach Coding Concepts". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ a b Hess, Abigail (2019-04-29). "Meet the 10-year-old coder grabbing the attention of Google, Microsoft and Michelle Obama". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ a b c Bort, Julie. "This 10-year-old coder is already so successful she's caught the attention of Google and Microsoft". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ a b c Cheng, Cynthia (2019-04-07). "Samaira Mehta Introduces CoderBunnyz (Coding) & CoderMindz (Artificial Intelligence) Game". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ Ferre, Ines; Wade, Reggie (June 23, 2019). "Meet the 11-year-old CEO trying to teach 1 billion kids to code". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ Kalra, Shyna (2018-11-27). "At 10, Samaira is a CEO and is among world's youngest coders". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ Weiner, Yitzi (2018-09-20). "Female Disruptors: Samaira Mehta is shaking up what we can expect from 10 year old girls". Authority Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-25 – via Medium.
- Living people
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century American inventors
- 21st-century American businesswomen
- Women inventors
- American computer programmers
- Board game designers
- American game designers
- People from Santa Clara, California
- American child businesspeople
- American businesswomen of Indian descent