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EE student connects with The Wond’ry in designing African language app to connect with native roots

Dec. 2, 2021—During his winter break in 2020, sophomore engineering student Wenitte Apiou was struck with an idea that stemmed from his native African roots. In Burkina Faso, West Africa, where Apiou grew up, the national language is French. After moving to the U.S., Apiou realized he hadn’t had the opportunity to learn his family’s native languages,...

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Engineering graduate’s app catches Apple’s eye

Jul. 22, 2014—Seth Friedman met the world’s most innovative software developers this summer at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. For five days in June, 1,000 Apple engineers and 5,000 developers gathered to reveal Apple’s latest technological innovations. A notoriously secretive company, Apple had promised it is working on its “best product pipeline in 25 years,”...

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