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title: "He’s 11 and his code is running on a space station! | Femi Owolade-Coombes | Thingmonk 2017"
date: 2017-11-02T14:33:43Z
modified: 2017-11-02T14:33:43Z
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Femi is a remarkable young man who seems to have achieved more in his 11 years on this planet than many people do in a lifetime. When he was 8 he set up an organization called Raspberry Jam which runs Tourette’s and autism-friendly coding events. He’s sent code into space. No – for real. He’s got his own coding blog. He won the Princess Diana award for his work for Tourette’s and autism. He went to Bangladesh and ran coding workshops for 230 underprivileged young people.