# Event Details - **Event Name**: SAMAIRA MEHTA: SAMA CRUSHES THE CODE at Books Inc. Mountain View - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 17 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us in welcoming local author, seventeen-year-old high school junior, and tech entrepreneur Samaira Mehta!About this EventSamaira join us for a celebration of her loosely biographical graphic novel Sama Crushes the Code!About the book:Big-thinking Sama loves coding, but is she skilled enough to fit in at Tech Club? This is a playful and 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.Technical concepts such as functions, parallelism, and queues are interwoven throughout, emphasizing how coding can be used both creatively and in service of community needs. . . . The outcome is a refreshing series opener centered around inclusion and accessibility in STEM spaces.—Publishers WeeklyCoding language and functions enhance the narrative by introducing foundational coding concepts and highlighting Sama’s inventive problem-solving mindset. Sama emerges as a likable, resilient protagonist whose perseverance makes her journey both relatable and inspiring, while Alvarado’s playful artwork further engages readers through dynamic storytelling.—Booklist[A]n introductory exploration of coding applications. . . .—School Library JournalSamaira Mehta is a seventeen-year-old high school junior 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 750,000 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. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mountain-view/samaira-mehta-sama-crushes-the-code-at-books-inc-mountain-view/100001987655956472 - **Event Categories**: it, business, art, literary-art, sports, kids, science-fair, trips-adventures, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Inc. - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Mountain View - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Inc. - **lat**: 37.3922279 - **long**: -122.0797416 - **full address**: Books Inc., 317 Castro Street, Mountain View, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: SAMAIRA MEHTA: SAMA CRUSHES THE CODE at Books Inc. 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