20-year-old Asmi Jain from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, is among the three winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge this year.
Ahead of its annual developer conference WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference), Apple issued a challenge to students across the globe to create an original app playground using the Swift coding language. On Tuesday, the company announced that among the top three winners this year is a 20-year-old developer from Indore, Asmi Jain who used her coding skills to solve problems in the healthcare sector.
Excited to be featured on Apple’s Newsroom! 🚀Winner of #WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge! 🏆 Thanks @Apple for this amazing opportunity.
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Link: https://t.co/EZwY3n4hiU— Asmi Jain (@AsmiJ3) May 30, 2023
As per a press release, Ms Jain is currently a student at Medi-Caps University in Indore. She thought of making the playground healthcare app after her friend’s uncle had to undergo brain surgery but as a result, was left with eye misalignment and facial paralysis.
She, therefore, designed her winning playground to track a user’s eye movements as they try to follow a ball moving around the screen. Apple explained that the playground’s purpose is to help strengthen the eye muscles.
Further, the 20-year-old stated that her inspiration for coding comes from the idea of solving problems in the healthcare sector. Recently, she and a few other students even created a forum at her university so that their classmates had a support system for working through tough coding problems.