Michelle Caliendo, 25, created “a memory game featuring anatomically correct pictures of dinosaur fossils that she drew in Procreate on iPad” after only learning Swift in September. Asmi Jain, 20, made a “playground to track a user’s eye movements as they try to follow a ball moving around the screen” that was inspired by her friend’s uncle and can strengthen eye muscles. Yemi Agesin, 21, created a first-person baseball game that combines his sports and filmmaking interests.
This year, Swift Student Challenge winners are awarded an invitation to attend WWDC in person as well as access to participate virtually. The swag pack sent to winners also includes the latest AirPods Pro, a pack of WWDC-themed physical pins, and a WWDC23 jacket.
Each of the three winners featured by Apple are first-time winners. Apple also expanded the winners pool from 350 to 375 this year. In total, Apple says over 30 countries and regions are represented in this year’s victory circle.
