Samaira Mehta

Samaira Mehta is an American coder and inventor. She is the founder and chief executive officer of CoderBunnyz.

Samaira Mehta
OccupationCoder, inventor, chief executive officer
Years active2016–present
Known forCoderBunnyz
Home townSanta Clara, California, U.S.

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]

gollark: Or the UK, really.
gollark: But we have to reopen *anyway* pretty soon, and I'm not sure the US actually has a long term plan.
gollark: How's it meant to save lives, though, outside of just stopping hospital floods?
gollark: I think lockdowns make sense as a way to get a bit more time to implement a long-term solution. Guess what's not really happening?
gollark: I think in practice most countries will have to at least partly unlockdown soonish.

References
  1. Cheng, Cynthia (2015-09-09). "Second-Grade Student Creates Board Game to Teach Coding Concepts". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Cheng, Cynthia (2019-04-07). "Samaira Mehta Introduces CoderBunnyz (Coding) & CoderMindz (Artificial Intelligence) Game". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
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