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Jui Khankar- AInspire

Posted by Hannah Ya 
· Friday, November 15th, 2024 
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Oak Brook teen receives Diana Award for nonprofit focusing on AI ...

Imagine if at 16 years old you decided to start a company that helps others learn more about artificial intelligence. Well, that’s what Jui Khankar did with AInspire when she was only 16 years old! AInspire is a nonprofit that helps students to explore and familiarize themselves with AI better all for free! But how big of an impact does AInsipre have in our lives? Well, AInspire has helped to serve over 26,000 students in all 50 states and even 91 countries! Jui also works with a team of 11 other women who are helping to make a difference with AI. She started this nonprofit after attending a summer camp at Stanford University when she was a high school freshman. As more time went on, she had a desire to learn more about AI and how it can further medicine and the future. At first, Jui didn’t find a whole lot of sources and research opportunities about artificial intelligence, especially for beginners wanting to know more. Soon she created AInspire.org and started to help others learn more about AI and its possibilities. Artificial intelligence keeps developing as technology improves, and so does our future. With the rapid development of AI, Jui realized the importance of gaining more knowledge on the topic and concept to help beginners learn more about where the future of AI can take us. With utilizing AI, the future could improve a lot because it can help out businesses to simplify running their businesses.  With AInspire, Jui uses lessons and activities to help others grasp the concept of AI with the technical, comprehension, and interpersonal skills that are needed to have a career in the 21st century. Jui also started an AI club at Hinsdale Central. The program is targeted more towards middle and high school students but it’s also available for everyone too. Since AI is being integrated into our everyday lives, it’s better to get a head start on learning about it now. So, since AI is slowly being added everywhere, she wanted to make AInspire free for everyone. AInspire has been seen on NBC, Chicago Sun Times, FOX 32 Chicago, The Hinsdalean, Chicago Tribune, Swiss Cognitive, and much more! You can check out AInspire here!

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Ask an expert – JUI KHANKARI, NONPROFIT FOUNDER – The Hinsdalean

Oak Brook teen receives Diana Award for nonprofit focusing on AI education – Chicago Sun-Times

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Categories : AI, Coding, Computers, Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment, Gen Z, Nonprofit, Uncategorized

Grechen Huebner: Kodable

Posted by goliasmc21 
· Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 
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Grechen Huebner’s entrepreneurial journey started when she first arrived at college as a communications major. She was not very skilled in technology coming in. Knowing that this would be a hinderance in her future career, Grechen began to surround herself with all things tech and design. Because she did this, she was able to teach herself web design. Having this skill allowed her to get multiple internships in college. Grechen wished she had learned web design much earlier in life and wanted to provide a way for others to do it.

This led Grechen to start Kodable. She developed Kodable with her co-founder Jon Mattingly in 2012, while they were still in college. Their goal was to be able to teach kids how to effectively code at a young age. Kodable has grown incredibly fast and is used in every developed country in the world to teach tens of millions of kids. Grechen is always communicating with her teams and her costumers to create the best experience for the students using her resources.  Grechen has been able to use her gifts she learned in college to impact so many people. She is giving other kids the opportunity she wished she could have had.

Programming for Kids | Kodable

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Avi Schiffmann – Self-Taught Website Developer

Posted by abi.renee 
· Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 
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No one could have predicted that there would be a need for his website, but now it has become an important website during the COVID-19 era. 

Avi Schiffmann is a 19-year-old high school student in Washington State, USA. He gained a spotlight in 2020 because of a website he developed on his own to track COVID-19 cases throughout the world. Just a few months later, Avi’s website was getting 30 million visitors each day, which added up to over 600 million visitors. 

When he was 17 years old, Avi was looking online for the COVID-19 case numbers online and all he could find was a slightly sketchy website in Chinese that he couldn’t understand. Because of this, Avi decided to create his own website which could display COVID-19 information in an unbiased and user-friendly way. With his experience with coding and website development that he taught himself, Avi was able to build the website and code it himself. 

The website was released in January 2020 and made it possible for millions of families to stay up to date on the condition of the world during those difficult times. 

The website shows a number of different types of numbers, including total confirmed cases, total of deaths, total recovered, and total vaccinated. The website also shows cases in each country and has a map to show data per country. The website is continually updated and shows accurate data. 

 

Click here to visit the website. 

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Categories : Coding, Covid-19, Health, Websites