Apple’s WWDC18 scholarship in pictures

Axel Boberg
Sep 5, 2018 · 3 min read

Photographs from a scholar’s week in San José.

Apple’s Esther Hare kicks off the orientation in Steve Jobs’ theatre

Anonymous buses took us to Apple Park and Steve Jobs’ theatre where Apple’s Esther Hare kicked off the orientation.

My scholarship badge

Energetic Apple staff keeps the line of excited scholars, waiting to get their access-passes, entertained.

Steve Jobs’ Theatre, entrance
Scholarship winner Chris Galzerano just before the keynote
Apple SVP of software engineering Craig, Hairforce one, Federighi during the keynote
Justine Ezarik of iJustine receives business cards outside the convention centre

The Apple Design Awards “highlights excellence in app and game design”, an award consisting of 10 solid aluminium cubes.

Myself and Apple CEO Tim Cook

Tim Cook entered the room as an expected surprise, and exited through a path made up by Apple Store staff in orange shirts. Catching selfies along the way.

Labs

Don’t go to sessions, go to the labs. A place where developers, and scholars in particular, gets a chance to chat with Apple developers and designers about their apps and get feedback and assistance solving issues.

Scholarship winners Andika Leonardo and James Ungaretti at the Bash
Panic! at the Disco, at The Bash

The Bash, a live event organized in a local park for the attendees of the conference.

Scholar Cole Fortson
Scholarship winners Gabriel Coutinho de Paula, Ludvig Christensson and Omar Al-Ejel flying a drone outside the dorms

The doors to the conference closed for the last time and we headed north for a couple of days in San Francisco.

Arrived in San Francisco
Scholar Oleg Dreyman at Apple Store Union Square
Twin Peaks

Axel Boberg

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Apple WWDC Scholarship winner 2018 | A Swedish photographer and developer

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