Apple Training Center in Kazakhstan: Graduates of the First Cohort Presented Their Developments

Out of more than 400 applications for the Apple Authorised Training Centre for Education program, 60 students were selected. Forty of them successfully completed the Develop in Swift course free of charge, acquiring all the necessary skills to create mobile applications for iOS. Following the first cohort, a Demo Day was held at Astana Hub, where graduates presented their projects—fully functional applications.

For four months, students studied at a center equipped with modern Apple hardware and, as part of the Apple Authorised Training Centre for Education program, had access to essential developer tools. The training was conducted by Smail Negmatov, an Apple Certified Trainer. Under his guidance, graduates mastered the required skills and developed their first projects using the SnapKit and Alamofire libraries to build iOS applications.

Among the participants' projects were Stocks, an app for tracking stock investments; Music Player, a digital service providing access to millions of songs; and Challenger, an app for randomly determining the loser in board games using the Truth Or Dare API. Also presented were Recipe Finder, which helps users find recipes based on ingredients; Qolda App, which assists school students in finding mentors; Football Insights, an app featuring match schedules and football competition results; CinemaPhile, offering movie streaming; Cardless, which digitizes plastic cards; and AniTrack, which tracks Web3 with live price and coin conversion features using the coingecko v3 api and exchangerate api. Finally, JU is designed for booking car wash services, and Music Bliss is considered a Spotify clone that reproduces the main features of the popular music service.

All graduates received an official certificate of course completion from Astana Hub and the Apple Authorised Training Centre. Additionally, outstanding students were awarded in the following categories:

— students with the best pitch: Aibek Igizbaev and Alima Kassenkazy

— most disciplined student: Nursultan Konspaev

— student with the most significant progress: Dias Shabarov

— student with the greatest potential: Denis Kononov

— student with the most systematic approach: Nursultan Kabulov.

Graduates intend to continue developing in the field of iOS development and are already moving on to mastering the more advanced VisionOS track. The second cohort of the "Fundamentals of Vision OS Development" course will soon begin. To participate, all interested parties must know Swift.