The Girl Who Stopped Bullying by Learning to Code
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The news spreads through the school: a girl just a little older has taken her own life after months of online abuse. Trisha Prabhu is 13, living in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, and that story won’t leave her mind. It’s not an isolated case, it’s the sign of a poison affecting her whole generation: cyberbullying.
The problem is clear. Adults don’t see it. Teachers don’t understand. Platforms look the other way. Trisha doesn’t know how to code, she has no labs, no mentors. Just an old computer and the conviction that something must be done. She decides she will teach herself the language of machines.
She starts from zero, with Java. Tutorials, manuals, endless nights of trial and error. She fails, gets back up, tries again. She’s not chasing likes or applause. She wants to find a way to stop the finger before it hits “send.”
After months, ReThink is born. An app that intercepts offensive messages and shows a warning: are you sure you want to hurt someone? And it works. Ninety-three percent of kids delete the message. Just a moment of hesitation is enough to save a life.
From there, everything changes. Trisha brings ReThink to the White House, wins over international juries, even appears on Shark Tank. An app written in Java in her bedroom becomes the shield for millions of teenagers. She did what big tech refused to do: put a brake on bullying.
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