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Apple’s Swift Explorers Singapore 2022

Swift Explorers Singapore
The Swift Explorers Singapore celebration at Apple Marina Bay Sands this morning saw 16 schools presenting their winning app ideas to Guest-of-Honour, Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). I had an opportunity to attend this wonderful event where every school represented their apps, benefits and how useful they are in our everyday lives. Swift Explorers Singapore
These apps were all developed using Swift, Apple’s proprietary coding language. Swift Explorers Singapore was initiated by Crescent Girls School in collaboration with education partner, Tinkercademy. Over 58 schools participated at the start of the initiative in March 2022.
Swift Explorers Singapore
Credit: Apple
The inaugural Swift Explorers Singapore is a series of free coding-related activities that allow students from Primary Schools to Junior Colleges to learn app design and coding on iPad using Swift, Apple’s proprietary coding language.
Swift Explorers Singapore
It is organised by Crescent Girls’ School, using resources from Apple, and supported by Tinkercademy, an Apple Professional Learning Provider.

Some of the student apps

East Spring Secondary School – Screen Master

Screen Master is an app which allows students to monitor how much time they are spending on their phones. Students can also set a limit to their screen time and to specify downtimes during which gaming and social media apps cannot be used.

Naval Base Secondary School- Study Cheese

Study Cheese is an app that allows students to set targets, create notes and keep track of the dates of their exams all in one place. the app also allows students to keep track of the amount of time they have spent studying. By having all these features in one app, students no longer need to switch between multiple ones which affects the flow of their studying.

Woodlands Ring Secondary School- Focus

Focus is a social productive application that rewards users to stay off their phones. Created as a social application, Focus is a competitive environment which encourages our users to keep one another in check.

Victoria JC- Medit

Medit aims to remind people suffering from chronic illnesses to take their medicine regularly. Furthermore, Medit includes Family function and Doctor version to include family members and doctors to help to remind patients.

Swift Explorers Singapore
  • Phase 1: Inclusive App Design Activity
    Great apps start with great ideas. Across 2 months, teachers conduct an Inclusive App Design activity within 2.5 hours each month with students as a way to introduce them to the world of coding and app development. Students will come up with an app idea connected to a topic they care about, then discover how to design with inclusion and accessibility as a centrepiece of their app design.
  • Phase 2: Everyone Can Code Bootcamp
    During the June holidays, students will spend 4 hours learning basic coding skills with fun activities using Swift Playgrounds on iPad. Primary school students will learn how to create their own virtual world, while secondary schools and junior college students will learn about basic app building.
  • Phase 3: Build Apps with Swift
    In this face-to-face boot camp, students will learn how to turn their app designs into fully built simple utility apps within 2.5 months.

 

Swift Explorers Singapore
 Credit: Apple
A student from Ngee Ann Secondary School presented their app, Routely, to audiences at the Swift Explorers Singapore celebration at Apple Marina Bay Sands. Swift Explorers Singapore was initiated by Crescent Girls School in collaboration with education partner, Tinkercademy. Over 58 schools participated at the start of the initiative in March 2022. Today, 16 schools presented their winning app ideas, all of which used Swift, Apple’s proprietary coding language.
Swift Explorers Singapore
Credit: Apple
A student from Presbyterian High School presented their app, Chater, to audiences at the Swift Explorers Singapore celebration at Apple Marina Bay Sands. Swift Explorers Singapore was initiated by Crescent Girls School in collaboration with education partner, Tinkercademy. Over 58 schools participated at the start of the initiative in March 2022. Today, 16 schools presented their winning app ideas, all of which used Swift, Apple’s proprietary coding language.
Swift Explorers Singapore
Credit: Apple
 A student from Dunman High School presented their app, Apples, to audiences at the Swift Explorers Singapore celebration at Apple Marina Bay Sands. Swift Explorers Singapore was initiated by Crescent Girls School in collaboration with education partner, Tinkercademy. Over 58 schools participated at the start of the initiative in March 2022. Today, 16 schools presented their winning app ideas, all of which used Swift, Apple’s proprietary coding language.
Swift Explorers Singapore

Swift
https://www.apple.com/sg/swift/
Swift is a powerful open language that lets everyone build amazing apps. Swift is a robust and intuitive programming language created by Apple for building apps for iOS, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch. It’s designed to give developers more freedom than ever. Swift is easy to use and open source, so anyone with an idea can create something incredible.

Swift Playgrounds
https://www.apple.com/sg/swift/playgrounds/
Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary app for iPad and Mac that makes it fun to learn and experiment with Swift — a powerful programming language created by Apple and used by the pros to build today’s most popular apps. Swift Playgrounds requires no coding knowledge, so it’s perfect for students just starting out. Solve puzzles to master the basics. Then step up to learn the building blocks of apps with interactive walkthroughs designed by Apple. And have fun creating your very own real-life apps. 
Tinkertanker is an education and technology company, and a member of the Apple Consultant Network. Tinkertanker Pte Ltd runs Tinkercademy, where they teach coding and apps making to students of all ages. Apple technologies enable them to tap on their core strengths in making software, electronics, and curriculum, to run coding initiatives such as the Swift Accelerator Programme, an intensive year-long course for talented young app developers.

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