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Meet Olivia Thomas

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Boise, Idaho


Age 17 at the time of innovation


Achievement: Created a game-design program to teach girls how to code.

Do you enjoy playing video games? Then you may be inspired by Olivia to create them.


Olivia has a passion for writing and storytelling. When she was 10 years old, she also became interested in developing video games as a creative outlet. With the help of a tech teacher, she later explored coding tools as a means of interactive storytelling and taught herself to code.


By the time Olivia was a high school student, she had created more than 60 games, including Colorless— an award-winning game that provides a puzzle experience about colors and requires critical thinking and observation.


Olivia has also led a workshop for middle school girls to teach them how to make a game from beginning to end. Her goal is to develop educational games.

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