Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Niall Kehoe, a 17 years old student from Ireland who won the WWDC Scholarship three times. We get to know what his submission is about, how he came up with the idea and how he used the frameworks provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students and we discuss about the features announced at WWDC, the previous times he has won the scholarship and his experience learning iOS development from a young age. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Niall's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Kehoe Niall's Apps: http://www.woollymammothtech.com Niall's Submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuuas18zgA

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Alexandru Turcanu, a 19 years old student from Romania who won the WWDC Scholarship on 2018 and the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Simon Draws". We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he used the frameworks provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students and we discuss about the features announced at WWDC. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Alexandru's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pondorasti Simon Draw's Github: https://github.com/Pondorasti/SimonDraws Stonk Scorer's Github: https://github.com/Pondorasti/StonkScorer

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Jose Adolfo, a 19 years old student from The Philippines who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Learn With AR". We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he used the frameworks provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students and we discuss about the features announced at WWDC. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Jose's Twitter: https://twitter.com/devjoseadolfo Learn with AR GitHub: https://github.com/jadolfot/LearnWithAR Learn with YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZKRVPVzX4

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Umar Haroon, a 21 years old computer science student from Colorado who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission about COVID. We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he used the frameworks provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students, we discuss about the features announced at WWDC20 and some predictions for WWDC21. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Umar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/umar__haroon Umar's Submission: https://github.com/Umar-M-Haroon/WWDC2020

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Euan Traynor, a 17 years old student from Australia who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Braille Tutor". We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he developed it, we also get some great tips for future students and we discuss about the features announced at WWDC. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Euan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EuanFTraynor Braille Tutor Github: https://github.com/efalloon/WWDC2020-Accepted

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Joseph Kokenge, a 22 years old student from Louisiana who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission about Crypto Kit. We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he discovered this little known framework provided by Apple to code it, we also get some great tips for future students, we talk about the structure of playgrounds and we discuss about the features announced at WWDC. You can get the video version of this episode on this link. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Joseph's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jokokrispy Joseph's Website: https://www.jokenge.com Submission Github: https://github.com/JOyo246/SwiftStudentChallengeSubmission2020 Submission YouTube: https://youtu.be/L2JxtWiTg5I

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Sylvain, a 21 years old Computer Science student from France who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "WatchMaker 2". We get yo know the history of the WatchMaker series, how it evolved and the motivation behind all the watch related projects of Sylvain. We also get to talk about his experience during WWDC 19, some tips for future students and his point of views on the new technologies announced at WWDC20. You can get the video version of this episode on this link. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Sylvain's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SylGllr Sylvain's Github: https://github.com/ElChoquito/ WatchMaker 2 YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fMYYKdKQo

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Zachary Lineman, a 16 years old student from Philadelphia who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Dungeon of Epsilon". We get to know the inspiration for his project and why he decided to use a text based playground. We also talk about his other projects, the experience of scholarship, tips for future students and the new features announced at WWDC. You can get the video version of this episode on this link. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Zachary's Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinemanZachary Zachary's Github: https://github.com/ActuallyZach Dungeon of Epsilon Code: https://github.com/ActuallyZach/Dungeon-of-Epsilon-WWDC20

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Pranav, a 14 years old student from Canada who won the Scholarship on 2019 and the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "ExercisAR". We get to know how he came up with the idea, how he learned Swift and AR and his experience during WWDC. We also get some great tips for future students and we discuss about the features announced at WWDC. You can get the video version of this episode on this link. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Pranav's Twitter: https://twitter.com/code_pranav Pranav's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9lwjk_pI4g83JMox_JXgpg ExercisAR YouTube: https://youtu.be/SYeBaYsg_ZY ExercisAR Github: https://github.com/pranavkarthik10/exercisAR

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Sai, an 18 year old student from the USA who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Mirrorly". We get to know about his submission, his interest in AI and Machine Learning, his other apps and his experience during this and the other two times he won the WWDC Scholarship. You can get the video version of this episode on this link. The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode. The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions. Other links and contact Information: Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/ Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx Sai's Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeySaiK Sai's Website: https://www.saikambampati.com Mirrorly Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/WYM4WptvnDU