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Samaira Mehta
18 Y/O•Mountain View, California, USA•Education

Samaira Mehta

Founded and built CoderBunnyz as a coding-education board game at age 8, later adopted by 100+ schools — documented in multiple profiles/interviews (e.g., EdSurge and Career Girls).

What they built

At age 8 in 2015, Samaira Mehta designed and built CoderBunnyz — a board game that teaches children foundational coding and AI concepts through play, using bunnies and obstacles to represent algorithms, loops, functions, and machine learning principles. She created it after wanting to combine her two favourite things — board games and coding — and to make programming accessible and fun for young kids, especially her younger brother. The game is now used in over 106 schools across the US and internationally, and she runs the 'Girls U Code' arm offering free workshops for underprivileged girls. She has since expanded into CoderMindz (AI-focused game), launched the Yes One Billion Kids Can Code movement, and published a book with MIT Press.

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Verified track record

  • EdSurge interview — '8-year-old creator of CoderBunnyz' (Jan 2016) (source)
  • Publishers Weekly — 'STEAM Star Turned Author: PW Talks with Samaira Mehta' confirms she built CoderBunnyz at age 8 (Mar 2026) (source)
  • Career Girls profile — confirms founder & CEO of CoderBunnyz, game used in 106+ schools (source)
  • Instagram bio lists public personal email samaira@coderbunnyz.com (source)
  • CoderBunnyz official site (source)
Updated April 27, 2026