Asmi Jain from Madhya Pradesh, named winner of Apple Swift Student challenge with eye app

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Moved by the plight of a friend's uncle, Asmi Jain, 20, used Apple's Swift coding language to create an app.

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20-year old Indore girl, Asmi Jain has created a healthcare app that has led her to be named the winner of the Apple WWDC23 Swift Student challenge.

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Asmi's eye playground has been designed in a way to help users strengthen their eye muscles.

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The app has now been found to be among the best of the best and has actually won the Apple WWDC23 Swift Student challenge in healthcare for Jain who hails from Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

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Apple has named 3 winners and apart from Jain, there are Yemi Agesin (US). His winning app playground is a first-person baseball game.

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The third winner is Marta Michelle Caliendo (Naples, Italy). Caliendo’s winning app playground is a memory game featuring anatomically correct pictures of dinosaur fossil.

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Every year, ahead of its WWDC event, Apple issues a challenge to students to create an original app playground using the Swift coding language.

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What drove Asmi Jain to Create the App was when her friend’s uncle went through brain surgery and he was left with an eye misalignment and facial paralysis.

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Jain then designed her winning playground to track a user’s eye movements as they try to follow a ball moving around the screen. “Coding lets me create things that help my friends and my community," she said.

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The playground’s purpose is to help strengthen the eye muscles. “It was important for me to create an app playground that could positively impact the lives of people like him,” says Jain.

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“My next goal is to get feedback and make sure it’s effective and user-friendly, and then release it on the App Store," she added.