Samaira Mehta
Samaira Mehta | |
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| Born | March 2, 2008 |
| Occupations | Coder, inventor, chief executive officer |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Known for | CoderBunnyz |
Samaira Mehta is an American coder and board game designer. She is the founder and chief executive officer of CoderBunnyz, a company that produces a board game of the same name for teaching children how to code.
Life
[edit | edit source]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] After she came up with the game's design, she worked with graphics designers and game manufacturers in China and New Zealand.[2] 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
[edit | edit source]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]
Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]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
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- Living people
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century American inventors
- 21st-century American women inventors
- 21st-century American businesswomen
- American computer programmers
- American board game designers
- People from Santa Clara, California
- American child businesspeople
- American people of Indian descent