Episode Synopsis "04: Parikshith Vallish"

Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Parikshith Vallish, a 20 year old student from India who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Fix My MacBook". We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he used the tools provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students and we discuss about the new betas and features announced at WWDC. You can get the video version of this episode on this link. What is the WWDC Scholarship? 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. Other links and contact Information: 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 Parikshith's Twitter: https://twitter.com/parik_v Parikshith's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParikV9906 Fix My MacBook YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakn7OAtcN8

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