Meet 17-year-old author, coder, and entrepreneur Samaira Mehta as she celebrates the launch of her STEM graphic novel. Q&A, signing, and a chance to talk code, games, and big ideas.
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This is a playful, STEM-rich story inspired by the real life of its seventeen-year-old author.
Sama’s starting middle school! Maybe Tech Club will be a good place to fit in. She’s into solving problems, building clever machines, and collecting beautiful data, plus her friend Nancy has given her a cool book on coding. But everyone at Tech Club is already so good at coding… will Sama’s contributions be enough for her to be included in the Code Crusher championship?
Sama proposes a project to help a stressed-out bus driver develop a time-saving route, but the club leader thinks the coding isn’t complex enough. When Sama befriends new neighbor Zoe (who built her own hovercraft!), however, the two girls inspire each other, and soon Sama bounces back with a bunny-based board game that teaches kids how to code while having fun. Could this game be the key to getting to the championship?
Precise coding vocabulary and examples are woven seamlessly into this lively story, based on the real-life computer science adventures of its author, young tech entrepreneur Samaira Mehta.
A peek at what makes Sama Crushes the Code a playful, STEM-rich read, straight from the publisher.
Sherry Cao
Goodreads reviewer
Sama Crushes the Code felt really authentic to me. It's a story about coding and STEM, but even more than that, it's about growing up, finding confidence in yourself, and learning where you belong. Sama was probably my favorite part of the book because she actually feels like a real middle schooler. She's curious, dete…
Jack
Goodreads reviewer
Sama Crushes the Code completely surprised me. What starts as an engaging journey slowly reveals something much deeper, more emotional, and far more powerful than I expected. The book carries this quiet intensity that keeps pulling you forward, and just when you think you understand where it's going, it reveals another…
Shannon
9,044 reviews · 447 followers
A tender and uplifting middle grade graphic novel about an anxious tween who is learning to code at school. I loved Sama and the message of this book! The author does such a wonderful job promoting girls in STEM and weaving in life lessons with real world coding applications. Sama makes new friends, helps solve communi…
Samaira Mehta is a seventeen-year-old high school senior and tech entrepreneur, described by Time magazine as one of the eight young leaders shaping the decade. As the founder of CoderBunnyz, CoderMindz, and CoderMarz (board games that teach coding and AI), her work has reached 1M+ people. She is a researcher at UCLA’s Orsulic Lab, and her work on ovarian cancer detection and AI-driven healthcare solutions has been published in Nature. She has been featured on the Nasdaq billboard, in Vogue, and on the Today show, cementing her place as a rising innovator. As she prepares for college, Samaira Mehta is eager to explore human-centered computing, AI ethics, and the evolving relationship between technology and society. But above all, she remains committed to her mission: empowering the next generation to shape the future of technology.
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