Indian boy who created Covid-19 tool among Apple’s student challenge winners

San Jose: Apple on Tuesday announced 350 winners of its annual WWDC Swift Student Challenge from 41 different countries and regions, including Palash Taneja who designed a Swift playground that teaches coding while simulating how a pandemic moves through a population.

For his Swift Student Challenge submission this year, created against the backdrop of Covid-19 pandemic, 19-year-old Taneja who grew up in New Delhi designed a Swift playground that also shows how precautions such as social distancing and masks can help slow infection rates.

He created it to help educate young people, after he saw others not taking warnings seriously.