“Growing up in Los Angeles, I have always been aware of the risks of forest fires that lead to living in southern California,” said Marina Lee, a 21 -year -old computer student at the University of Southern California. Entrepreneur. “But the urgency really came home when my grandmother found himself in the evacuation areas during the recent forest fires of Los Angeles in January, called me because she received an evacuation alert on her phone.”
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Lee remembers being overwhelmed by the situation and is not sure what to pack, where to go and how to stay updated. Upon realizing that many other people were probably experiencing the same confusion and fear, he decided to build an application to solve the problem: evacuate.
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Evacumate de Lee helps users prepare an emergency verification list of essential elements, load copies of important documents through their iPhone camera roll and import emergency contacts through the contact list of your iPhone. The application also allows users to monitor air quality levels and organize a first aid kit.
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Lee took Lee approximately one month to develop the application and send it to Apple’s Swift Student ChallengeA competition that invites students around the world to enter their original applications built with Apple’s Swift coding language.
Most students begin to prepare their presentations in advance, so the deadline “felt a bit tight,” says Lee. However, he was ready to get to the occasion, after having started his coding trip in high school and completed several projects in the later years.
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As a “very creative” person, Lee focused first on the design and design of the application, she says. Then he directed his attention to practical characteristics. Lee asked his friends and family to comment while working in evacumato, and the “very collaborative process” allowed him to interact with his target audience and understand how they would interact with the application.
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“I definitely hope to meet other winners of the Swift Student Challenge [at WWDC]”
Of the 350 winning presentations of this year, Lee was selected as one of the 50 distinguished winners guests to attend the World Developer Conference (WWDC) in Apple Park. The 2025 conference, which takes place in person and online from June 9 to 13, begins with the CEO Tim Cook opening direction and will show the new technology and software of the company.
Some of this year Other distinguished winners Include Taiki Hamomoto, 22, from Japan, whose Hanufada Tactics application teaches users how to play the play of traditional Japanese cards; Luciana Ortiz Nolasco, 15, from Mexico, whose BreakDowncosmic application offers a virtual meeting place for astronomy enthusiasts; and Nahom Worku, 21, who grew in Ethiopia and Canada and developed the application to which it is accessed, which provides learning resources available with or without Wi-Fi connectivity.
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“I definitely hope to meet other winners of the Swift Student Challenge [at WWDC] And other developers in general around the world, “says Lee.” Throughout my years of participation in the Hackathon community, I have been able to build friendships and lasting connections with students around the world, but it was only through a virtual environment. So attending this conference would really bring that experience in person. “
Read is currently being presented as an engineer Front-End in Amazon in Seattle, Washington. The role focuses on web design and the construction of user interfaces, a process that, such as coding, also gives it the opportunity to be creative, he says. She hopes to perform a similar work that allows her to merge her passion for creativity, art and coding after graduating from the university.
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Other young people who want to learn how to code and potentially follow an engineering career should consider participating in Hackathons, events of 24 to 48 hours in which students collaborate in projects and attend workshops, says Lee. Lee remembers being intimidated at the beginning, but the experience laid the foundations on where it is now.
“I met some new friends with whom I still keep in touch to this day,” says Lee. “[The experience] It allowed me to learn more about coding and get more involved in the Hackathon community. I started organizing some [hackathons] Me and tutoring in other Hackathons. It is a good first step in coding and really allows you [join] the community “.
“Growing up in Los Angeles, I have always been aware of the risks of forest fires that lead to living in southern California,” said Marina Lee, a 21 -year -old computer student at the University of Southern California. Entrepreneur. “But the urgency really came home when my grandmother found himself in the evacuation areas during the recent forest fires of Los Angeles in January, called me because she received an evacuation alert on her phone.”
Image credit: Courtesy of Apple. Marina Lee.
Lee remembers being overwhelmed by the situation and is not sure what to pack, where to go and how to stay updated. Upon realizing that many other people were probably experiencing the same confusion and fear, he decided to build an application to solve the problem: evacuate.
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