What does the average 15-year-old do with her free time? Most teenagers are hanging out with friends, talking on their smart phones or playing games on their computer. But Swetha Prabakaran is different. She enjoys spending her time making the use of technology easier for all.
一个15岁的女孩子在她闲暇时候会干些什么？大部分都是在和朋友逛街、煲电话粥或者打游戏。但是Swetha Prabakaran就不一样，她喜欢把自己的业余时间花在简化科技上。
It's called coding. So exactly what is that?
她把这个叫做coding。但是coding到底是什么？
"Coding, in the most simplest terms, is just you tell a computer to do what you want. It's just like telling a dog to sit. You're telling a computer to do something and just like we write in English a ‘to do' list or directions, you write a language for computers."
"coding是最简单不过的概念，就是你告诉你的电脑你想要它干嘛，就好比叫一只狗狗坐下一样。你向你的电脑发出指令，好像我们写计划表一样，你给电脑编写一直语言。"
Swetha Prabakaran loves to code and she likes the details of how to teach computers to make life easier for people.
Swetha Prabakaran喜欢编程，而且特别喜欢利用电脑让自己的生活变得更加简化。
"I focus on computer science, specifically in application development with phones and websites on computers, developing little games or applications that make other people's lives easier."
"我很喜欢电脑科技，特别是手机和电脑网页之间应用结合，发明一些小游戏和应用让其他人的生活变得更加轻松。"
A junior at top-rated Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Virginia, Swetha Prabakaran learned about coding while taking a computer programming class.
作为Thomas Jefferson高中的理科生，Thomas Jefferson是在电脑编程课上学习编码的。
"I came to TJ and my first year I decided to take a class in computer science and see how it was, just to figure out whether I liked it. And I really like how with computer science I can be really creative and have a lot of flexibility to do the things that I want to do with it and build something new also help people with the things that I was creating."
"我来到TJ第一年，我就决定选学一门电脑课，看看它到底怎么样，我自己是不是喜欢它。事实证明，我真的很喜欢电脑科技，我喜欢创新，喜欢把复杂的程序简单化，我想要人们使用我创造的东西。"
Swetha is the founder of Everybody Code Now! The non-profit works to empower the next generation of youth to become engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. Everybody Code Now operates in 12 states and in the near future will be partnering with schools in India and Ghana.
Swetha是Everybody Code Now!的创始人。该非营利组织致力于鼓励下一代年轻人成为工程师、科学家和企业家。Everybody Code Now!已经在12个州成立，未来还将和印度和加纳学校合作。
"The non-profit works with students, currently in various states, to bring introductory computer science lessons and exposure to technology to students through their schools and partnerships with teachers.
"该组织将和学生一起，目前至少在几个州的范围内，向他们介绍电脑课程和相关科技，让学生和老师一起学习。"
"So if you are in elementary school, you're learn about how computer science is used on websites and games and lots of other things that we use every day but don't really think of as coding. And we're discussing partnerships with other countries mainly in India and we're also talking about partnership in Ghana and Bangladesh, which we hope to launch within the next year."
"如果你是小学生，你可以学习如何利用电脑编写网页和游戏，以及其他许多我们每天都在使用的电脑功能。我们和其他国家，主要是印度伙伴讨论。我们还和加纳和孟加拉国家一些学校建立了伙伴关系。"
In September of this year, Swetha was honored at the White House as one of 11 young women named "champions of change," for her work as the founder of Everybody Code Now. She was one of two 15-year-olds to receive the award.
今年9月份，Swetha在白宫和其他11名年轻女性被授予"改革之星"的称号。她也是两个里面的一个15岁就被授予该奖项。
Swetha is working on an app which will help other non-profit organizations.
Swetha还帮助别的非营利组织制作软件。
"So I'm working on a couple of apps right now that might help local non-profit organizations reach more people or make it easier for people to find such non-profits through a websites or apps because everybody has a phone now and so we want to be able to make them these super tools that you can use for anything."
"我现在忙于2个软件的编写，编写出的软件将帮助当地非营利组织能够帮助到更多人，或者使人们可以更加方便就找到网页，因为现在大家都有了手机。我们希望手机能够成为所有人的超级工具。"
Swetha says he finds teaching others to code satisfying. She says she will continue to encourage other girls to give coding a try and see the power coding gives you right at their fingertips.
Swetha表示：她发现教别人编程是一件很有趣的事。她将会继续鼓励其他女孩尝试编程，见证编程的魅力。
I'm Marsha James.
我是 Marsha James.

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