At 10 years old Samaira Mehta become CEO of her own company. When she was very young her father taught her how to code. She fell in love with everything coding and began researching online for materials for first time coders. As she was searching, she couldn’t find adequate resources and realized there was a demand in the market. She wanted other young people like her to be able to easily learn coding, so she started brainstorming ways to solve that problem. Eventually she landed on a board game. With the help of designers and game manufacturers in China and New Zealand she designed her game “CoderBunnyz”.
Later she went on to create another educational game called “CoderMindz”. That game is a coding based artificial intelligence board game that teaching people AI concepts using Java. Samaira is so passionate about coding, and she believes that it is the key to the future in the next 10 to 15 years. She figures if she can teach people this skill at a young age it will drastically help their careers as they grow up. She also figured out that learning is easier when it’s fun, so she made a board game out of it.
Her company had a total revenue of $600,000 and sold around 15,000 games in 2019. Now Samaira travels to different places and speaks to students and conferences about STEM education. Even huge companies like Google and Facebook have taken an interest in her. Google invited her to speak at an event and Facebook donated over 100 of her games to schools. Google has actually offered her a job for when she gets older.
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Chase, good work with this post. I have never heard of this story before, but I think it is so interesting how children at such a young age can create such complicated things. I think one big takeaway I have from this story is how much her parents wanted to pour into her and help her achieve her dreams. I enjoyed reading this!
I think that it’s pretty cool and impressive to become a CEO at 10 years old. It’s also pretty amazing how she fell in love with coding at such a young age and also realized how important coding is to the future. It’s impactful when someone is passionate about improving the lives of others and how even Google wants to hire her when she grows up!
Crazy how not only a young kid was so good at coding but also managed to make $600,000 off of it. It is also cool to see just how passionate she is about giving back to kids her age and using her passion for the subject to help educate others.
What a story. Mindblowing to me that a kid as young as 10 years old was able to start such a lucrative business from coding. Becoming the CEO at that age must have been daunting, but having the right support group around you is crucial for success. Seeing Samaira giving back by speaking at conferences is cool to see and awesome that she is sharing what she has learned from her experiences.