'Everybody Code Now' teen gets White House award!

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Indian-American teen, Swetha Prabhakaran has turned entrepreneur in US and founded Everybody Code Now. She received the prestigious ‘Champions of Change’ award at the White House. She is just 15 and is a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Virginia.

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Her company, Everybody Code Now! is a non-profit organization which helps next generation of youth to become engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Under her leadership, the company raised thousands of dollars for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) activities in schools.

she was one among 11 young women selected by the White House as recipients of ‘Champions of Change’. Besides coding, she is also a classical art student and is taking years of training in Bharatanatyam.

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