Indian-origin Anvitha Vijay has given a new meaning to the phrase “age is just a number”, she has proved that achievements and knowledge follow passion and hard work and not just age and experience. At a young age of nine years, this little girl has already developed two iOS apps, and is now the youngest attendee of Apple’s WWDC event.
Indian-origin developer Anvitha Vijay who has already developed two app for the iOS platform will be the youngest attendee at the event, according to a report by Fortune. As part of Apple’s scholarship program, which gives free tickets to developers around the world who build applications for Apple devices, Vijay is attending the annual WWDC’s event this year. Vijay had applied for the scholarship online. This event is quite a big deal for developers and coders worldwide, being able to attend it is dream come true for Anvitha Vijay.
The scholarship gives hundreds of free tickets, and reportedly this year saw most winners under the age of 18. “Out of 350 recipients, 120 of the lucky winners are students under the age of 18. Submissions increased by 215 percent more than doubled from organisations focused on science, technology, engineering, and math,” adds the report. Moreover, the number of women who applied for the scholarship have also tripled this year.
Fortune reported Vijay saying, “It’s my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cook.”
According to the same article, Vijay, who lives with her parents in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of seven realised that her piggy bank did not have enough money to hire a developer to make her an app, so she decided to teach herself how to code. For one entire year, she watched multiple coding tutorials on the web and became a programmer herself.
Vijay’s muse for developing the apps was her little sister, who was still learning to talk. Therefore, Vijay developed an educational app for children that were her sister’s age. The app is called Smartkins, which uses about 100 sounds and flashcards of different animals that help children learn and identify. Later, Vijay developed a similar iOS apps for children to identify and learn colors. She is now working on her third app.
In a similar event of genius-spotting in 2012, Shafay Thobani, from Pakistan, at the age of eight, became the world’s youngest Microsoft specialist. At that young age, where I was still confusing the alphabet ‘b’ and ‘d’, Thobani had studied and passed the IT and software tests with a score of 91 per cent. He mastered complicated internet protocol and domain name systems to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.
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