A nine-year-old Dublin girl has been named the EU's Digital Girl of the year for 2014.
Lauren Boyle is the founder of Cool Kids Studio, an initiative that includes three websites she has built herself to help children with life skills.
Boyle also mentors others through the coding initiative Coder Dojo.
It is not her first honour however, because she’s already won the Next Generation Award for Excellence at the Irish Internet Association’s Dot IE Net Visionary Awards, while Cool Kids Studio was recognised in the websites category at this year’s CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards.
Lauren responded to the news with surprise on Twitter
OMG! I am Digital Girl of the Year 2014 #eskillsRome #adaseu14
— Lauren Boyle (@laurenboyletech) October 30, 2014
The Cool Kids website offers life advice for kids, covering everything from how to handle bullies to what to do on a rainy day.
