10-year-old Indian girl Samira rejects Google’s offer

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October 26, 2018

While most children are focussed on homework and school, she is not only a skilled computer programmer, but also owns a company. To top it all – she recently rejected a job offer from Google.

Ten-year-old Samira Mehta is the genius daughter of an engineer. She is already an entrepreneur, a skilled programmer, has taken workshops in Silicon Valley and received an open offer from Google which she has declined. 

Samira has set up her own company called 'Coder Bunnyz' which is a coder game teaching children all the necessary concepts of computer programming. Samaira's father already has a plan for his daughter's company.

The father-daughter duo conducted workshops and established a company to launch the game. Samaira tested her game by inviting friends to play with her so that they could give firsthand feedback and point out the shortfalls.

After the success of her board game, Samira launched another version of the game - the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) game to get launched in the market. This explains the concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

While, she has conducted over 60 workshops in Silicon Valley which have been attended by about 2,000 kids. To her surprise, she sold 1,000 boxes in a year that is worth $35,000 (Dh128,000 approx).

Her work has won Samira the second prize from Think Tank Learning's Pitchfest in 2016 and the 'Real Life Powerpuff Girls' prize from Cartoon Network. When Google extended an open offer to her, she declined saying that she was happy being an entrepreneur.

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October 1,2024

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The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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