Google and Snap are holding a teen coding contest to create an official Snap lens
Google’s Made with Code and Snap are collaborating on a competition that will see one teen creating an official Snap lens. The contest, called #MyFutureLens, launches today and five finalists will be sent to the TEDWomen conference in November to work with Google and Snap engineers to create lenses for the Snapchat app.
Google’s Made With Code program already offers several projects that give a pop culture introduction into coding, like a Wonder Woman experience that teaches sequences by training Diana with the Amazons. Falling in line with the project’s ethos, #MyFutureLens is aimed to show teenagers that coding is something that is applicable in the things they use and love in everyday life. More than 50 percent of them might use Snap…
