

Ming Horn, 17, spent half of her junior year designing and crowd-funding KhodeUp, the four-week computer programming class that she taught at Future Light Orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 124 donors from around the world contributed over $21,000, and Ming's KhodeUp pitch won a $1,000 prize from the Thiel Foundation. Many of Ming's 24 students had never used email. By the end of the month, each had learned enough HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to built and present business websites. Ming has been coding since first grade and has traveled to Cambodia six times.