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    Teen Coder Is Building First-of-Its-Kind American Sign Language App

    Eashwar is one of the 2024 winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge, which tasks young creators with developing apps that solve real-world problems. His submission, Finger Dance, is geared toward facilitating better communication between the Deaf and hearing communities.

    “You can build solutions that, if they work for you, if they’re solving a problem in your life — someone else is gonna be having that same problem as you are,” Eashwar shared, adding: “That’s really what inspired me to get into the field, that high-impact social innovation that you can bring to the world with computer science and machine learning.”

    Read the full interview with Nice News here

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