Michelle Sun

Michelle Sun (; born )

Early life and education A native of Hong Kong, Sun completed her secondary school education with nine A's in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination at St Paul's Convent School. She studied Economics at the University of Chicago.

In 2012, she followed a three-month bootcamp course on computer programming at the women-only Hackbright Academy in San Francisco.

First Code Academy In 2013, Sun moved to Hong Kong and founded First Code Academy in 2013. The venture began on a small scale as a girls-only workshop. It provided a range of courses for both boys and girls from four to eighteen. Starting with a basic introduction to programming, courses included classes on how to build an app, how to build a website and advanced topics including Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Sun ultimately sought to address the lack of effective coding and programming classes for K-12 students by creating a solution that was able to provide students with skills that would provide them with a toolset that better allows them to approach new situations and stay competitive. She believes that all children need to be coding literate and has a keen interest in increasing the interest of young girls in STEM to encourage diversity in the workplace. After initially launching First Code Academy in 2013 in Hong Kong she moved to expand lessons to locations such as Taiwan, Macau and Singapore. Sun ultimately focused on the importance of showing girls that in spite of currently male-dominated professions they too can succeed in coding, entrepreneurship and STEM as a whole. She believes that encouraging a mindset of growth and the ability to view challenges as an opportunity for growth to be important. Persistence and optimism are equally also qualities that she seeks to impart upon her students. She believes that seeing her students succeed is of the utmost important. She was also awarded a Woman of Hope award in 2014 and 2015 in the entrepreneurship category