Sixth Grader Becomes The Toast Of The Tech World

Although he isn’t old enough to have a Facebook account, Thomas Suarez is fast becoming one of the new faces of tech. Already the sixth grader has formed his own company and released two iOS apps. Plus, he recently began giving TED talks, according to The Next Web. Suarez runs CarrotCorp, a developer company behind Earth Fortune, which displays different colors of Earth depending on what your fortune is and Bustin Jieber, a Whack-a-Mole for Justin Bieber.

“A lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them,” he says. “And it’s difficult because not many kids know where to go find out how to make a program…And not many parents have written apps.” Suarez, inspired by Steve Jobs, started an App Club at school where any student can come to learn to design an app. In the future, Suarez wants to create more apps, more games and get into Android programming and development. He plans on continuing his app club and find other ways for students to share knowledge with others.

Take a look at Suarez’s recent talk at the TEDx conference in Manhattan Beach:

So, what were you doing in sixth grade?

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