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PIO girl youngest attendee at Hillary Clinton Hires Activist from Bernie Sanders Campaign to Win Youth Demographic Apple’s developer conference (58 percent to 35 percent), increasing it to 69 percent to 26 percent in the 65 and up age group.
Kunoor Ojha. LinkedIn photo.
Now the Clinton campaign is moving quickly to ensure that the Sanders’ youth brigade remains firmly in the Democratic fold. Although there is little danger of them bolting to the Trump camp — a Harvard Institute of Politics poll earlier this year found 61 percent of voters under 30 would back Clinton, compared to 25 percent for Trump in a two-way race — they want to ensure a high youth turnout. That’s where Ojha comes in.
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ASHINGTON (PTI) — In an effort to extend her campaign’s reach into the younger demographic, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her campaign team announced June 9 it hired Indian American Kunoor Ojha. Ojha, who was previously part of the 74-year-old Bernie Sanders campaign, will serve on Clinton’s campaign as the national campus and student organizing director. Sanders attracted more support from voters under 30 years old than Clinton and Donald Trump put together — 71 percent in a two-vote race — which kept him in the nomination hunt long after it became clear he wouldn’t make the cut. Clinton’s announcement of the Illinois-based youth activist Ojha’s hire came hours after President Barack Obama virtually extinguished Sanders’ run for the White House by endorsing his former secretary of state. Ojha began her political activism as a field organizer on the ‘Obama for America’ campaign in Chicago in 2011, and worked in various state-level campaigns before joining the Sanders bandwagon in 2015. The campaign’s outreach to students, fuelled primarily by the pledge to make college tuition free, saw America’s youth flock to him. Early in the race, Sanders was beating Clinton 84-to-14 among Democrats under 29. Even in the 30-to-44 demographic, he had a 21 percent lead. It was only in the 45-to-64 age group that Clinton retrieved ground
She has plenty of experience in this area, having worked as a field direc-
tor for political campaigns tasked with organizing volunteers and ensuring Election Day turn-out. Of course, it will need a lot more to win over the youth, many of whom believe Clinton is part of the “establishment” regardless of political colors. Many of them are in fact disappointed with Obama. A Sanders rally in Washington, D.C., even after Obama virtually asked him to stand down by endorsing Clinton, attracted a large and passionate crowd waving anti-war and anti-student placards. Sanders made no mention of his meeting with Obama or Clinton at the rally. He still intends to contest the last primary in Washington, D.C.
BOOK Release: Nine Days
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housands of NRIs come to their Mother Land for vacations at least once a year. Especially those have parents still alive back in India. Elsy and Mathew are not any different from those ordinary people. Every year they looked into this vacation time. Since their children were grownups and taking care of themselves Elsy and Mathew were worry free couple. They love to spend time in their flat in Kerala and take some side trips while they are in India This year also they started their vacation travel from Houston Texas were they are settled now. But this time on second day of their arrival in Aluva Kerala all their plans got shattered. Vacation became a nightmare and tension filled days. They became victims of a crime they fell in without their willingness or knowledge. But they did not lose their faith and trust in other good people. Good people in India showed willingness to help them. How the drama unfolded at the end and who were the players in this drama? How Elsey and Mathew became victims? Who helped them to find an B. John Kunthara’s second book Nine Days was end to that difficult pe- released by Padmabooshan Dr. K.J Yesudas. riod?
Anvitha Vijay (pictured) travelled from Melbourne to take part in the famous event, after the app she created to help teach her younger sister learn about animals turned heads in the tech industry. Photo credit Eddie Jim
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EW YORK, PTI | Jun 13, 2016 - A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl has earned the distinction of being the youngest app developer at Apple’s annual developer conference with her apps for children and she now dreams of meeting the tech giant’s CEO Tim Cook.
The report said Vijay’s apps were inspired by her toddler sister, who was learning how to talk and identify animals.
Anvitha Vijay from Australia is the youngest attendee at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco and has already built several apps for iPhone and iPad, a report in Fortune said.
She then developed another similar interactive iOS app for children to help them learn colors and is now already working on her next app, which wants to help kids her won age with setting goals.
Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web, and learned how to program. “Coding was so challenging. But I’m so glad I stuck with it,” she said. Vijay, who has been developing apps about empowering children, hopes to meet Cook during the conference. “It’s my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cook,” she said. Vijay is attending WWDC as part of Apple’s scholarship program, which gives hundreds of free tickets to developers from around the world who are creating apps for Apple devices. Out of 350 recipients this year, 120 are students under the age of 18, Fortune said, adding that the number of women who applied for the scholarship tripled this year, and this year, 22 per cent of scholarship winners are women, which is an increase from last year.
Her brainchild was the Smartkins Animals app, which uses sounds, and flashcards to help teach children 100 different animals’ names and sounds.
“Turning an idea for an app involves a lot of hard work,” Vijay said. “There are so many components to building an app, including prototyping, design and wirreframing, user interface design and then coding and testing.” With WWDC, like most tech conferences, overwhelmingly dominated by white and Asian males, the company has been making efforts to diversify the attendance at the annual event. Scott Lilly, who is vice president of programs at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, said that Apple approached his organisation to offer scholarships to WWDC last year. “I think they are making sure that diversity is represented,” Lilly said. Under that programme this year, Lilly is sending two female African American college students and three African American men to WWDC.
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