Indian-origin girl among winners of Apple 'WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge'
Abinaya Dinesh, a 15-year-old Indian-origin girl, is among three
winners of the annual WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge, a platform for the young
brains willing to demonstrate their coding and
problem-solving skills, tech giant Apple said on
Tuesday.
Passionate about the intersection of medicine and technology,
something that became personal for her last year, Dinesh created an app called
Gastro at Home, which she plans to launch on the App Store this summer.
The app offers people with gastrointestinal disorders a way to
access information and resources, especially because those types of conditions
can sometimes be sensitive to talk about, the statement by the company said.
The idea of creating such an app came in the mind of Dinesh after
she herself suffered from gastrointestinal problems.
I went to a gastroenterologist and he diagnosed me with a pelvic
floor disorder. But then told me nothing about how I was supposed to get
better, Dinesh, who lives in North Brunswick, New Jersey, said.
Over the last year, Dinesh has also started her own nonprofit,
Impact AI, to foster learning and ethical practices in artificial intelligence
among young people, the statement said.
As part of it, she launched an eight-week high school programme,
called Girls in AI, to teach young women the basics of programming and machine
learning.
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