This 10-year-old female coder is so successful, both Google and Microsoft want to invite them to work

Growing up in Silicon Valley, at the age of 10, Samaira Mehta has become a star in the programming community and has been eyed by many global companies.

Mehta is the founder and CEO of a company called CoderBunnyz , which not only won media recognition, she also became a speaker at many Silicon Valley conferences.

It all started when Mehta was 8, she created the game on "CoderBunnyz" to teach other kids how to code. In fact, this prodigy has learned code since he was 6 years old.

Powerpuff Girl real life

The game has brought Mehta the second prize as well as $ 2,500 in prize money at the Think Tank Learning competition in 2016. This has attracted attention from the marketing department of Cartoon Network - those who are looking for " Powerpuff Girls "real life. (wait a minute, if you don't know this cartoon, go Google .).

Receiving the invitation of Cartoon Network, Mehta participated in several videos and since then, she has been more popular than ever.

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Samaira Mehta, founder and CEO of CoderBunnyz.

After the name appeared on many news stories, Mehta started selling his game on Amazon. " We sold about 1000 sets, equivalent to US $ 35,000 and it only appeared on the market for 1 year," Mehta lovelyly opened up when talking to Business Insider.

However, not everyone knows that, when launching CoderBunnyz, her father - Rakesh Mehta (engineer of Intel and Sun Microsystems), was enthusiastic to help with a very good marketing strategy.

Simply helping children access the code with simple games, Mehta also "plays bigger" when launching the campaign named "Yes, 1 Bilion Kids Can Code" - allowing people interested in supporting the set. Mehta's game for schools. Mehta even organized workshops for children at many schools.

Since the beginning of 2018, up to 106 schools have used Mehta's game set to teach code to students.

"The world has more than 1 billion children," Mehta said. "There are many people willing to buy CoderBunnyz for schools, for those who need to learn code all over the world .".

Extremely good sales made Mehta cherish the next plan: A code game for children with AI, called CoderMindz and it is expected to become the first AI board game. In particular, Mehta developed this project with the help of his brother Aadit Mehta, 6 years old .

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Aadit Mehta, 6 years old, helped her 10-year-old sister to do big business.

Young star of Silicon Valley

When everything "took off" surpassed expectations, Mehta began receiving many workshop invitations. Until now, she has done . 60 workshops for 2000 children.

The seminars that Mehta attended were held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Here, Mehta met Stacy Sullivan, Google's CCO.

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Samaira Mehta at one of Google's seminars.

Proudly, the young female coder told Suliivan, "I'm not sure about coming to Google, I prefer being an entrepreneur .".

Since launching CoderBunnyz, Mehta has met many other big names. One of the proudest moments is getting an encouraging letter from Michelle Obama, meeting on the occasion when asking for candy in the Facebook boss's neighborhood. Mehta immediately took the opportunity and talked to Zuckerberg about his coder career.

"Zuckerberg gave chocolate to me, I told him to be a coder and was praised by him".

Earning a lot of money from a young age, Mehta not only cared for business investment. She sent a lot of profits to a charity called PATH .