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Burnaby highschooler wins Apple’s Swift Student Challenge
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Burnaby highschooler wins Apple’s Swift Student Challenge

Omar Abu Sharar created a mental health app, Mentality, to help teach about anxiety, depression, and stress.

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Omar Abu Sharar Mentality
A screencap from Sharar’s Mentality app.

Apple’s new Vision Pro VR headset wasn’t the only news of note for Vancouverites at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference last week.

Local Burnaby student Omar Abu Sharar was announced as one of the winners of the conference’s Swift Student Challenge: a competition for high school students across the world …

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