Apple to Announce 2024 Swift Student Challenge Winners on March 28

[MacRumors]

As part of today's WWDC 2024 announcement, Apple said that it plans to announce this year's Swift Student Challenge winners on Thursday, March 28. The annual Swift Student Challenge asks students to create an innovative coding project using the Swift Playgrounds app.

While Apple normally starts the Swift Student Challenge when WWDC dates are announced, the company launched the challenge early to give students more time to work on their projects.

Submissions were accepted from February 5 to February 25, and are now closed.

Apple is selecting 350 winners for the 2024 challenge, all of whom will be eligible to attend the June 10 WWDC Special Event at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Winners will need to enter the lottery process to get a chance to attend.

Apple is also choosing 50 Distinguished Winners recognized for "outstanding submissions." The Distinguished Winners will be invited to Cupertino for a three-day experience that will include the Special Event keynote viewing and other activities.

Swift Student Challenge winners will be informed via email if they've won later this week. Projects are judged based on technical accomplishment, creativity of ideas, and the content of written responses explaining the project.

Article Link: Apple to Announce 2024 Swift Student Challenge Winners on March 28

 

[Iphoneness]

Cool but where’s the iPads

 

[Just Mark]

If you play the announcement backwards, it says the iPads will be announced at a later date.

 

[philstubbington]

If you play the announcement backwards, it says the iPads will be announced at a later date.

… and what about Paul McCartney?

 

[MacNut]

Wow Taylor Swift is everywhere!

 

[ThomasJL]

The annual Swift Student Challenge asks students to create an innovative coding project using the Swift Playgrounds app.

There will be nothing "innovative" about the flat design that Apple forces them to use in their apps. Skeuomorphism lent itself much better to innovative GUI design. It's too bad that Tim Cook is too clueless to realize something that blatantly obvious.

 

[SexExpert]

There will be nothing "innovative" about the flat design that Apple forces them to use in their apps. Skeuomorphism lent itself much better to innovative GUI design. It's too bad that Tim Cook is too clueless to realize something that blatantly obvious.

Eh? How does Apple 'force' you to use a flat design in your apps?

 

[ThomasJL]

Eh? How does Apple 'force' you to use a flat design in your apps?

Ever since iOS 7 in 2013, Apple's guidelines for iOS developers have included the use of flat design.

 

[SexExpert]

Ever since iOS 7 in 2013, Apple's guidelines for iOS developers have included the use of flat design.

You said Apple 'forced' people to use flat designs and that would mean there was no innovation, but now you're admitting it's just a guideline. Guidelines don't stifle innovation.