Scholars in the Spotlight

05: Sai Kambampati


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Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Sai, an 18 year old student from the USA who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission "Mirrorly".

We get to know about his submission, his interest in AI and Machine Learning, his other apps and his experience during this and the other two times he won the WWDC Scholarship.

You can get the video version of this episode on this link.

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
  • Sai's Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeySaiK
  • Sai's Website: https://www.saikambampati.com
  • Mirrorly Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/WYM4WptvnDU
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    Scholars in the SpotlightBy Valentino Cerutti