Hong Kong native Michelle Sun has been one of BBC’s 30Under30 women entrepreneurs (2015), a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2016) awardee and has even won a Women of Hope Award (2015). But this highly accomplished coding guru came up with her idea for the First Code Academy, an education institute that offers coding programs for kids aged four to 18, in less-than-glamorous circumstances – while bedridden for three weeks recovering from swine flu.
“I was curious about coding and also interested in the technology field in general,” explains Sun. “At the time, I was working at Goldman Sachs as an analyst covering the technology sector, and I realised that tech companies were changing the way everyone shops, everyone eats and everyone moves around. So I wanted to build technology products and I wanted to get my hands dirty and become fluent in coding myself.”
Sun launched the academy in 2013, teaching coding and computer science concepts including artificial intelligence (AI) through online programs, and in-person classes in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. “I believe coding is the second language of the world,” she enthuses.
“The future is about having that fluency of technology and computer programming. The next generation needs to know how to communicate with computers and that’s the main inspiration behind teaching girls and boys at First Code Academy.”
CODE LIKE A GIRL
While Sun strongly believes that all children need to be coding literate, she has a particular interest in increasing the interest of young girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects.
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