Swift Student Challenge 2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2026

Applications are open for the Swift Student Challenge 2026. Apple is proud to assist and uplift the following era of builders, creators, and entrepreneurs with the Swift Student Challenge. The Challenge has given 1000’s of scholar builders the OPPORTUNITY to showcase their creativity and coding capabilities by means of app playgrounds, and study actual-world abilities that they’ll take into their careers and past.

Benefits

• They will identify Distinguished Winners whose work is really distinctive and invite them to hitch — in particular person — for 3 inspiring days at Apple in Cupertino, the place they’ll acquire invaluable insights from Apple specialists and engineers, join with their friends, and luxuriate in a number of unforgettable experiences. Travel and lodging included.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Challenge, you can’t be employed full time as a developer, and on the time you submit your app playground you should:

• Meet the minimal age for requirement in your nation or area as follows:
  • 14 years of age or older in Austria, Bulgaria, China mainland, Cyprus, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, South Korea, and Spain.
  • 15 years of age or older in Czechia, France, Greece, Peru, and Slovenia.
  • 16 years of age or older in Brazil, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, and Slovakia.
  • 13 years of age or older in all different international locations and areas.
• Be registered totally free with Apple as an Apple developer or be a member of the Apple Developer Program; and
• Fulfill one of many following necessities:
  • Be enrolled in, or have graduated throughout the final 90 days from, an accredited tutorial establishment or official homeschool equal, or an Apple Developer Academy;
  • Be enrolled in a STEM group’s academic curriculum; or
  • Have graduated from highschool or equal throughout the previous 6 months and be awaiting acceptance or have acquired acceptance to an accredited tutorial establishment.

Application

• Your submission have to be an app playground (.swiftpm) in a ZIP file.
• Your creation shouldn’t depend on a community connection and any assets utilized in your app playground needs to be included domestically within the ZIP file. Submissions will probably be judged offline.
• Your ZIP file will be as much as 25 MB.
• Your submission have to be created by you as a person or a template modified by you as a person. Group work is not going to be thought-about. You could embrace third-celebration open supply licensed code and/or public area photographs and sounds, with credit score and a proof of why it was used.
• Your app playground have to be constructed with and run on Swift Playground 4.6 or Xcode 26, or later. You could incorporate the usage of Apple Pencil.
• All content material needs to be in English.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Swift Student Challenge.