Swift Student Challenge: Apple’s Swift Student Challenge to open in February 2024: All the details

Apple’s Swift Student Challenge sees participants from all over the world create apps. Apple started the program in 2020 and the next next challenge will open in February 2024. This year it will include a new category recognising 50 Distinguished Winners, who will be named for standout submissions.

How to apply, what students will win and more

Students will be invited to submit their app playgrounds for the Swift Student Challenge during a three-week window in February 2024.Interested participants can sign up at Apple’s developersite and then will be duly notified when the challenge is open. Out of 350 overall winners, 50 Distinguished Winners will be invited to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, next summer, where they’ll have the opportunity to connect with each other and the Apple team. All winners will receive a one-year membership into the Apple Developer Program, which enables them to submit apps to the App Store and receive support from Apple.
“At Apple, we believe that everyone can learn to code and build apps, and we’re proud to support and recognise aspiring student developers with the Swift Student Challenge each year,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of worldwide developer relations and education & enterprise marketing. Apple is releasing new coding resources for students and educators, working with our community partners on dedicated Swift programming, and sharing advance notice of the Swift Student Challenge timeline for 2024. “We can’t wait to see the app playgrounds students submit next year,” Prescott added.
To support teaching Swift Playgrounds for educators, four new Everyone Can Code Projects provide step-by-step resources to guide students in developing essential skills while creating apps that solve problems they care about.

Everyone Can Code projects

Apple’s new Everyone Can Code Projects provide step-by-step resources to help educators guide students through every step of their coding and app development journey, and develop essential skills while creating apps that solve problems they care about.
Everyone Can Code Projects can be integrated into any subject area, and are for classrooms or coding clubs. They introduce students to SwiftUI — the modern way to build user interfaces with surprisingly little code — and use the latest app-building technologies in Swift Playgrounds. As they code, students can see how their app changes in real time with App Preview.