Computer whiz Keiano Hall said that he wanted to become a software engineer as an adult.

But for now, the 13-year-old Dellwood Middle School pupil has his sights on the development of a computer game that he created last year.

Keiano, from St George’s, was identified as a rising star at the Hackathon conference for advanced computer programmers last week.

He said his attendance at a similar coding camp in Minnesota had inspired him to create his own game.

He said: “It’s a game where you can control the player and he has to pass these levels where these characters are defending it, so you have to shoot them and make it across to the door.

“We had to write multiple lines of code for things like jumping, how fast the bullets move and how to move the character.”

Keiano said that during the Bermuda Hackathon he helped put together a thermometer out of nothing but a computer chip, a circuit board and a monitor.

Keiano said: “It read the temperature of the room, but it was written in code.

“We weren’t able to read the temperature, so we had to write a code so that it would translate into a temperature.”

He added: “There was about 100 lines of code that we had to write and we had to get every single wire in the exact spot.”

Keiano also attended the Hackathon in May and developed a school-centric app with three other children.

He explained that the untitled app allowed pupils to grade their teachers’ performances and offer advice for future classes.

Keiano added: “Coding is just like talking, but you have to do it in a different way so that the computer understands.”

The Hackathon, hosted by the technology charity Code 441, aims to show the next generation the potential for a future career in the field of computer sciences. Jahde Eve, a software engineer who works for a tech start-up in Silicon Valley and the founder of Code 441, said that he was intrigued by Keiano’s attention to detail when debugging coding problems.

He added: “Computer science is a field that requires a high level of attention to detail.

“During the Hackathon, Keiano exemplified a willingness to pay close attention to each line of code he was writing.”