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Scholars in the Spotlight

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The show where you get first hand insights, tips and tricks directly from students who won this years WWDC Scholarship. Are you a beginner in code? or a multiple time winner of the Scholarship? Don't worry, you will find some useful information for you in this podcast. Join us as we interview a different WWDC Scholar each week, we talk about their submissions, their experience during WWDC, tips for future students and more.

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February 10, 2021

14: Niall Kehoe

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at <a href="http://clipdad.com/">clipdad.com</a></p> <p><strong>Other links and contact Information:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast"><strong>https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast</strong></a></li> <li>Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/</a></li> <li>Micrograx's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/micrograx"><strong>https://twitter.com/micrograx</strong></a></li> <li>Niall's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Niall_Kehoe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Niall_Kehoe</a></li> <li>Niall's Apps: <a href="http://www.woollymammothtech.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.woollymammothtech.com</a></li> <li>Niall's Submission: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuuas18zgA&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuuas18zgA</a></li> </ul>

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February 2, 2021

13: Alexandru Turcanu

<p>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".</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com</p> <p><strong>Other links and contact Information:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast"><strong>https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast</strong></a></li> <li>Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/</a></li> <li>Micrograx's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/micrograx"><strong>https://twitter.com/micrograx</strong></a></li> <li>Alexandru's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Pondorasti" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Pondorasti</a></li> <li>Simon Draw's Github: <a href="https://github.com/Pondorasti/SimonDraws">https://github.com/Pondorasti/SimonDraws</a></li> <li>Stonk Scorer's Github: <a href="https://github.com/Pondorasti/StonkScorer">https://github.com/Pondorasti/StonkScorer</a></li> </ul>

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January 26, 2021

12: Jose Adolfo

<p>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".</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at <a href="//clipdad.com">clipdad.com</a></p> <p><strong>Other links and contact Information:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast"><strong>https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast</strong></a></li> <li>Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/</a></li> <li>Micrograx's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/micrograx"><strong>https://twitter.com/micrograx</strong></a></li> <li>Jose's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/devjoseadolfo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/devjoseadolfo</a></li> <li>Learn with AR GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/jadolfot/LearnWithAR">https://github.com/jadolfot/LearnWithAR</a></li> <li>Learn with YouTube Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZKRVPVzX4&amp;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZKRVPVzX4</a></li> </ul>

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What is Scholars in the Spotlight?

The show where you get first hand insights, tips and tricks directly from students who won this years WWDC Scholarship.

Are you a beginner in code? or a multiple time winner of the Scholarship? Don't worry, you will find some useful information for you in this podcast. Join us as we interview a different WWDC Scholar each week, we talk about their submissions, their experience during WWDC, tips for future students and more.

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This podcast updates daily.

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