14: Niall Kehoe Scholars in the Spotlight

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.

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.

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.

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.

Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com

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Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast
Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/
Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx
Niall's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Kehoe
Niall's Apps: http://www.woollymammothtech.com
Niall's Submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuuas18zgA