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In 2025, applicants were tasked with creating an interactive app playground on the topic of their choice to showcase their passion for coding. Here’s how Gaon describes his winning submission.

Distinguished Winner

Morspeak combines “Morse code” and “Speak” to help ALS patients, who previously used blinking only to express “yes” or “no,” communicate more effectively by converting their blink patterns into Morse code and then into spoken language. The key focus from a user experience perspective was ensuring full accessibility. My goal was to make the app completely usable independently, requiring no help from others, with only blinking needed for interaction.