My point is if she did make the app herself it makes sense to hold her up as a role model but holding her up as a "prodigy" is counter productive. If anything

My point is if she did make the app herself it makes sense to hold her up as a role model but holding her up as a "prodigy" is counter productive. If anything it is a little sexist (not you, the "prodigy" idea). That if a 16 boy makes an app it's just normal but if a girl does it, she is a prodigy. We need to be teaching people that men and women are equal and that girls can do this stuff just the same as boys. Saying it takes a prodigy to do it discourages people from even trying because it comes with the implication that person is capable of something the average girl isn't.