17-year-old presented her life-saving app to Tim Cook last year

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Meet the 17-year-old wonder kid who started coding at 7 and presented her app to Tim Cook last year. Now she's headed to NASA.

since age 7 and knows about 18 programming languages , has already made a splash in the software world: She's developed numerous apps to make an impact — and was a winner of the Student Swift Challenge at Apple's annual What's more, Tsuboi is also a pilot already using her software skill set to make the aviation industry more accessible has her sights set on a career in mechatronics, a multidisciplinary field combining computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical...

Similarly, Tsuboi drew on her struggle with the"really unintuitive" search for scholarships to fund expensive flight training in Los Angeles to develop her app Pilot Fast Track, which helps aspiring aviators locate scholarships to fund their training. Thousands of people use the app today.

"Learning CPR online was a little bit difficult because there are specific things that are really tactile with learning CPR, like compression rate," Tsuboi says."It's hard to get an intuitive sense of compression rate doing online CPR classes. So I was like, She had a chance to see presentations announcing the company's new hardware and software and engage in one-on-one live talking sessions with other developers.

 

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