Daily Mail. Meet the world’s youngest video game programmer – a 7 year old girl who just designed a game involving ballerinas and jewels

When it came to programming her video game for young girls, Philadelphia's Zora Ball had a good idea of the what the audience likes. She should, considering she's still only seven-years-old herself.

Ball is a first grade student at the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School who designed the video game in a class on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The class is led by Tariq Al-Nasir, head of the STEMnasium Learning Academy. The organization uses open-source software called Bootstrap and Alice 2.0 first developed for university students, but Al-Nasir has made it more accessible through the Racket programming language.

The students were able to make interactive games compromised of a player, a goal, and a hazard to avoid. Then they chose a setting.
Ball chose to make her player a ballerina in search of a jewel in a nail salon who's all the while being chased by a vampire.

The Philadelphia Tribune called he the youngest person every to create a full version of a mobile application video game and she recently showed off her work at Will.i.am's TRANS4M benefit show in Lose Angeles. The pop star even played the game himself.

After such success, Al-Nasir now plans to have his first graders design even more elaborate games and enter them in competition.

In his eight and ninth grade classes, students are already creating a program to honor Martin Luther King Jr. called, 'Let Freedom Ring.'