vidit bhargava was in class iii and like any younger sibling he wanted to what his elder brother did his brother attended an html class back then and that aroused bhargavas curiosity about computers and technology that was many years ago but the spark was lit and since then bhargava has realised that technologies are not only fun to play with but can also be used to create tools that help people something he did with his app called lookup for ios crucial to his development was apples role with its swift student challenge that is conducted every year around wwdc the annual developer conference lookup is an english dictionary a reference and learning app that enables users to learn new words through beautiful illustrations the idea is to bring fun and interactive ways of learning words to a traditional dictionary says bhargava the app has word of the day illustrations interactive quizzes and translated meanings making it useful reference app for students and nonnative english learnersapple has a swift swift student challenge every year where students can showcase their passion for coding winners like bhargava and others get one year of membership in the apple developer programwhats the eligibility criteria for apple student swift challengeto be eligible for the challenge you mustbe 13 years of age or older or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdictionbe registered for free with apple as an apple developer or be a member of the apple developer program and fulfill one of the following requirementsbe enrolled in an accredited academic institution or official homeschool equivalentbe enrolled in a stem organizations educational curriculumbe enrolled in an apple developer academyhave graduated from high school or equivalent within the past 6 months and be awaiting acceptance or have received acceptance to an accredited academic institutionnew delhibased bhargava was 21 in 2016 when he got the wwdc scholarship from april he had seen a picture of apple ceo tim cook interacting with young students and made him curious how they ended up meeting one of the most important men in not just tech industry but the world the scholarship says bhargava came at the right time for him i had completed my second year in college and i was going to start looking for summer internships or prepare for further studies i hadnt really considered making apps as a career opportunity he reminisces the wwdc scholarship gave him confidence to work on his own apps he finished graduation and set up and indieapp development studioits been five years since that wwdc scholarship and in between bhargava rejected several engineering jobs to take up app development an apppreneuer he runs a company called squircle apps and is creating some developer tools productivity and lifestyle appsfrom coding at the age of nine to ar appslike bhargava akhil tolani has a rather interesting story about development of apps he started coding at the age of 9 and ended up selling his first company for 100000 at the