“I have always been aware of the risks of wildfire living in Southern California,” said Marina Lee, a 21 -year -old computer science student at the University of Southern California. entrepreneur“But urgency really collided with the house when my grandmother recently found herself in the withdrawal areas during the La Wildfire – he called me because she received a clearance warning on her phone.”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple. Marina Lee.
Lee recalls that the situation is overwhelmed by the uncertainty of what to go, where to go and how to update. Realizing that so many other people were feeling the same confusion and fear, he decided to create an app to solve the problem: empty.
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Emptying Lee helps users prepare an emergency checklist of essential commodities, upload copies of important documents through their iPhone camera roll and import emergency contact through the contact list of their iPhone. The app allows users to monitor air quality levels and keep a first medical kit together.
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Lee took about a month to develop the app and submit it for Apple Swift Student ChallengeA competition that invites students from all over the world to enter their original app playground, which is manufactured with Apple’s Swift coding language.
Most students start preparing their submission months in advance, so the deadline “felt slightly tight,” Lee Note. However, she was ready to get up on the occasion, began her coding journey at the middle school and completed several projects over the years.
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As a “very creative” person, Lee first focused on the design and layout of the app, she says. Then he turned his attention to practical characteristics. Lee asked friends and family to respond as he had done empty work, and the “very colleague process” allowed him to join his target audience and understand how he would interact with the app.
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“I am definitely keen to meet other Swift Student Challenge winners (in WWDC).”
Out of this year’s 350 winning submissions, Lee was chosen as one of the 50 prestigious winners invited to participate in the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park. The 2025 conference, which is online and online from 9–13 June, closes with CEO Tim Cook’s main address and will demonstrate the company’s new technology and software.
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“I am definitely eager to meet other Swift Student Challenge winners (in WWDC) and other developers around the world,” says Lee. “During my years of joining the Hacathan community, I am able to create permanent friendships and connections with students around the world, but it was only through a virtual setting. So attending this conference will actually bring that experience to the person.”
Lee is currently an internship as a front-end engineer at Amazon in Seattle, Washington. The role focuses on web design and building user interfaces, a process that gives it a chance to be creative, like coding. She hopes to pursue similar work that allows her to merge her passion for creativity, art and coding after graduating from college.
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Other youth who want to learn how to chase the code and potentially engineering career, should consider participating in hackathon, on 24-48-hour incidents where students cooperate on projects and participate in workshops, say Lee. Lee recalls that it is being intimidated at the first time, but the experience laid the foundation, where it is now.
“I met some new friends who I still keep in touch till date,” Li says. “(Experience) allowed me to learn more about coding and join the hackathon community. I started organizing myself (hackathon) and advised in other hackathon. This is a good first step in coding and actually allows you to join the community.”
“I have always been aware of the risks of wildfire living in Southern California,” said Marina Lee, a 21 -year -old computer science student at the University of Southern California. entrepreneur“But urgency really collided with the house when my grandmother recently found herself in the withdrawal areas during the La Wildfire – he called me because she received a clearance warning on her phone.”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple. Marina Lee.
Lee recalls that the situation is overwhelmed by the uncertainty of what to go, where to go and how to update. Realizing that so many other people were feeling the same confusion and fear, he decided to create an app to solve the problem: empty.
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