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Coding sensation Samaira Mehta, a 10-year-old from Silicon Valley, left Google to stay focused on running her business.
Mehta was screened by Stacy Sullivan, culture manager at Google, when she hosted a series of workshops at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, reports Business Insider.
"After my consecutive workshops at Google headquarters, we talked for an hour," said Mehta. "She told me that I was doing well and that once out of college, I could work for Google."
Instead of accepting this offer, Mehta, self-taught, said she loved being an entrepreneur and did not know if she wanted to work for Google.
Even at such a young age, Mehta is already director of her own company, CoderBunnyz. The company, with the help of his father, Intel Rakesh Mehta engineer, was built around a board game of the same name, which aims to help children learn to code. Mehta code since the age of 6 years.
After Mehta received the second prize in Think Tank Learning's 2016 Pitchfest for her board game, she began to earn international fame and recognition. She has also been spotted by Cartoon Network as one of their true "Powerpuff Girls".
Mehta then started organizing coding workshops with her board game. This year alone, 106 schools used CoderBunnyz as teaching aids to code classes for children. The willingness to spread the use of his board game came from his initiative entitled Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code. The initiative allowed donors to donate game boxes to schools.
The future of CoderBunnyz is presented in the form of a new board game called CoderMindz, which Mehta has introduced as the first board game with artificial intelligence. While Bunnyz teaches children to code, Mindz plans to teach them how to program AI. The new board game was developed with the help of his brother Aadit, 6 years old. Alfred Bayle / ra
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