WWDCScholars
yaejee baek24
North Korea
Hi, I’m Yeji , a 2025 Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winner and an alum of the Apple Developer Academy in South Korea. I’m passionate about spotting real-world problems and turning them into thoughtful solutions that make a difference. I love working with others and building things that matter.
Scholarships
yaejee has been awarded a WWDC scholarship in 2025. Here is the submission that got her there.
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 yaejee describes her winning submission.
Music is often seen as something that belongs only to hearing culture, and Deaf people have had little opportunity to learn about it. One Deaf person once told me, "I want to know what a music scale is," and "I want to know what harmony is." That inspired me to create an application that helps them understand music scales and harmony through visual expression. I used piano keys and simple visuals to help users understand notes and chords more intuitively.