Wolverhampton student, 16, presents security app to Apple CEO Tim Cook
A 16-year-old school student from Wolverhampton has had the opportunity to present the app he created to the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.
Each year Apple invites talented students from around the world to enter the Swift Student Challenge; a coding competition which encourages entrants to build an unique app of their choice. Thousands of students enter the competition, with only a few hundred chosen as winners.
This year, one of those winners was Wolverhampton Grammar School student, Alfie Cockell Gwinnett, a brilliant 16-year-old from Codsall, who created an app, SecureMe, focussed around cybersecurity.
As part of his student challenge, Alfie's app uses a password calculator to determine how strong it is and how long it would take for a hacker to get into it.
Alfie said: "I first did Computer Science when I was 13, and I wasn't too interested at the time, but then at 14 I took an interest in programming and started looking into it in my own time and taught myself.
"Then at 15 I created the app called Focus, which is a simple revision timer that I actually made for myself to manage my time with my mock exams.
"I needed a good revision timer to get through it and it is a simple app with no ads, just a project I created in my own time, released it and then used it myself.
