 Hi, I'm Shirin Laora Solemnia. I'm the founder of Playworks, which is an interactive media and gaming company. And also the founder of WizGirls Academy, where we do healthy balance tech lifestyle hackathons. I'm also currently an XPRIZE Code Games Challenge judge. I'm in LA and I'm working on pivoting for WizGirls Academy to online and a new project for Playworks. I'd love to see more girls getting excited in the gaming industry like I was. I'm afraid that enough girls and boys don't know how cool it is to be a game designer, to create a game from scratch, to do everything like create the graphics, create the world, create the characters. So I think it's really important to have more girls and boys in the gaming industry. I learned how to code in elementary school in the third grade with a female computer science teacher. I love biking on the beach and hanging out at the beach and also playing old school games like Pac-Man, Miss Pac-Man, Paperboy. I'm obsessed with Atari 2600 and the original Nintendo. The one positive thing that I would say for the next generation is you can give back, you can make a difference. You can work with your friends to make a game and then work on a team and make a huge difference for your friends and the next generations to come.