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7 year old Zora Ball – the youngest ever app developer
Zora Ball. PHOTO/Harambee Institute of Science and Technology
Meet Zora Ball, who at 7 years old is the youngest person to create a mobile video game app.
Ball, a first-grader at the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School in Philadelphia, built the game using a programming language called “Bootstrap” that teaches kids age 12 to 16 how to grasp complex math.
The app was unveiled at the FATE Bootstrap Expo, held at the University of Pennsylvania in December 2012.
According to reporters from the Philadelphia Tribune who were present, Zora Ball also successfully reconfigured the app when asked to do so at the Expo, silencing anyone who may have thought that her older brother — a STEM scholar of the year — helped her program the game.
Staff at Harambee Institute of Science and Technology, where Zora Ball attends first grade and an after-school program, anticipate she will do great things.
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