A group of Ontario kids successfully calculated the speed of the International Space Station using computer coding skills.

“The systems that I work with are not a black box. I know what every line of code does in my system, and ultimately, it’s what moves me that gets translated to the physical world,” she said.

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology.