Samaira Mehta is an American coder and inventor. She is the founder and chief executive officer of CoderBunnyz.

Life

Mehta is from

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. Her father is an engineer. 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. She designed the game over the course of a year. Mehta speaks at workshops and conferences including at Microsoft, Intel, and Google. She first started presenting at workshops at the

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. She spoke at the 2019 C2 Montréal Conference. Mehta aims to eliminate

gender bias Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls.There is a clear and broad consensus among academic scholars in multiple fields that sexism refers primaril ...

and increase the number of

women in engineering Women are often under-represented in the academic and professional fields of engineering, however many females have contributed to the diverse fields of engineering historically and currently. A number of organizations and programs have been crea ...

CoderBunnyz

The name, CoderBunnyz, combines her interest in board games and coding with bunnies, her favorite animal. The game provides instruction on basic concepts in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

and

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. It includes five major topics including training, back propagation, inference, adaptive learning, and autonomous.

Awards and honors

In 2016, Mehta won the $2,500 second-place prize at Think Tank Learning's Pitchfest. She received a letter from former first lady

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehta, Samaira Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American inventors American women inventors 21st-century American businesswomen American computer programmers Board game designers American game designers People from Santa Clara, California American child businesspeople American people of Indian descent