A major aspect of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference remains celebrated and cultivating young coders and app developers building tools that live at varying intersections of tech, culture and industry. Among the excitement of device announcements and new operating system advancements, the company welcomed a collection of individuals to the Apple campus and honored them as winners of the Swift Student Challenge, with Apple CEO Tim Cook spending time with them.
Audrey Wang’s app, Theia, provides games that simulate synesthesia, the wide-ranging phenomena where the stimulation of one sensory pathway sparks responses from another sensory pathway. Wang’s hope is that the app will give users insight into neurodivergent experiences and as an aid for Alzheimer’s patients like her grandmother.
Angelina Tsuboi was chosen for her app CPR Buddy. The app teaches users correct procedures and techniques for administering CPR and will be coming to the Apple Watch sometime in the future. In addition to that, she also has three additional projects in the works, including one that ties into her love of flying aircraft, Pilot Fast track.