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Florence Andrade30

Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Ideas burst through my head as if unknown horizons needed them more than I need quiet.

Scholarships

Florence has been awarded a WWDC scholarship in 2022. Here is the submission that got them there.

In 2022, applicants were tasked with creating a Swift Playgrounds app project on the topic of your choice to showcase their passion for coding. Here’s how Florence describes their winning submission.

The idea of making the ThereBeat Playground App was born through my enchantment with the Theremin instrument, one of the first electronic instruments created, which works without any physical contact between the player and the device. I met the Theremin when I was a child and was enchanted by the strange sound and the magical idea of producing music without touching anything, so I imagined that children and teenagers would like to have the experience I had, but in a doubly enchanting way, becaus