Apple has its own annual programming competition for school children and students, Swift Student ChallengeStarted By February 23, 2025, interested parties can present their projects made with Swift Playground App. Apple selects 350 winners from all entries worldwide. 50 participants from the winners districts are also invited from Apple to attend the Apple Headquarters at the Developer Conference (WWDC) worldwide in California.
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In 2024, many German winners also got a chance to be in Cupertino. In a conversation with Heise Online, he reported that he met Apple officials on the site and gained an insight behind the visuals of the iPhone manufacturer. Some had successfully participated in the challenge several times. Winning projects included following the application, for example, whether you drink enough water during the day, for the use of concerts or social media.
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Swift student challenge was introduced in 2020. The purpose of the youth competition is to promote young programming talents and support them to network with each other. A positive side effects for Apple are that younger programmers often get self -planned with their own app in the app store or are involved by companies that develop software for Apple’s platforms.
All the winners get one year free membership in the Apple Developer Program, with which you can publish, for example, the app in the app store, the app with the Swift with a voucher for a voucher and a voucher for the certification test for the app development with the app. ” special gift” .
Note the minimum age
Apple is exclusively for competition Swift coding club The material provides that students and students should support the preparation for the competition. Apple’s programming language is focused on Swift and Swiftui to design the user interface.
If you want to participate in the competition, you should not work completely as a developer. So apple recommends that you To read competitive situationsIn Germany, students at the age of 16 are allowed to participate in the challenge in Austria even from the age of 14. Young Swiss should be at least 18 years old. In addition, interested parties should either participate in a recognized educational institution, nomine in an educational program of a mint organization or acquired a certificate of abitur or similar school to leave within the last six months within the last six months. .
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