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Patiala’s Jaskaran Singh wins Apple’s Swift Student Challenge 2022

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Patiala’s Jaskaran Singh wins Apple’s Swift Student Challenge 2022
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Patiala, June 4: Making the nation as well his parents proud, 21-year-old student from the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, identified as Jaskaran Singh, has won Apple’s Swift Student Challenge 2022.
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Patiala-based Jaskaran Singh and Pune’s Jay Firke are among 350 students from 40 countries and regions who have been selected as Apple's '2022 Swift Student Challenge' winners for showcasing extraordinary coding skills. Indians-excel-in-Apple-Swift-Student-Challeng-5 Also Read: Moosewala's parents to meet Union Minister Amit Shah at Chandigarh The 'Swift Student Challenge' is part of Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC22). Swift Student Challenge is a five-day event in which young students from around the globe use Swift Playgrounds to showcase their coding skills. Every year before WWDC, Apple holds the Swift Student Challenge conference to provide scholarship to young developers. Jaskaran Singh said, "I've always had a passion for learning and creating new things. Design and coding are outlets for my creativity. So, winning the Swift Student Challenge was always a dream for me because it's the most prestigious award a student developer can win."
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Indians-excel-in-Apple-Swift-Student-Challeng-3 He started learning coding since school, and his Swift submission uses CoreML to help users refresh themselves with simple exercises after long tasks. Singh developed a productivity app called 'Nudges: Minimal To-Do', which is available on the App Store. He further plans to start a Swift Club in his university to encourage his friends and students to learn coding and to participate in Apple’s Swift Student Challenge. "I learnt and grew a lot during the Apple Challenge and winning has given me confidence to do more with my skills to make a positive impact on the world," he added. ਪਟਿਆਲਾ-ਦੇ-ਜਸਕਰਨ-ਸਿੰਘ-ਨੇ-'ਐਪਲ-WWDC22-ਸਵਿਫਟ-ਸਟੂਡੈਂਟ-ਚੈਲੇਂਜ'-ਕੀਤਾ-ਡੀਕੋਡ-2 Also Read: Amit Shah to inaugurate Khelo India Youth Games in Panchkula Meanwhile, Pune-based self-taught developer Jay Firke, a student of Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering and Research also won the Swift Challenge and said, "In WWDC 2022, I want to learn more about augmented reality and new technologies that Apple is going to launch this year. The most interesting part about WWDC are the designing and coding elements alongside the one-on-one labs with apple developers.” -PTC News-
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