SAN JOSE, Calif. – Ayush Kumar is entitled to only 30 minutes of screen per week.

And it's during this half-hour that, according to his father, Amit, he's content to play Minecraft and other games, watch YouTube videos and code.

But the fourth grader is so good at code and appreciates a lot. Dad mentioned a bursary competition organized by Apple, which invites students from around the world to attend its global developer conference, and Ayush accepted the challenge.

"I told him," You probably can not enter, "says Amit, an engineer and contractor who describes himself as such, in the San Francisco Bay Area," but you can try. "

Dad extended the screen time for the weekends and Ayush, 10, participated. From WWDC, Ayush has been meeting with USA TODAY for his second podcast interview. (The first was for his grade four class.)

"I like to code," he says. "And I thought it would be a great opportunity to be here with developers and learn more about coding."

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To be accepted by Apple, he created a physics-based application with "a catapult lever that you release to shoot a projectile". He was inspired by a fourth-year scientific project that he created to explore his love of physics. The application has been submitted to the Apple App Store and is under revision.

Ayush wanted to join WWDC because "you have to learn about new things about Apple and about things that seem boring but fun to learn, what people do not think about, like privacy and security."

Ayush says that he has been coding since the age of 4 and that his goal is to continue to do so in adulthood.

"I'd like to be an application developer, I love cars too, I'd like to make technology for cars," it's like working on big screens that are in the center of a Tesla. "I may be creating my own car business and being the technology leader for the car."

When asked to name a few favorite apps, he refuses because he does not have an iPhone. He uses the family iPad to play games. "I do not like things for adults," he says.

At WWDC, Apple presents its latest software and vision for the future. In recent years, Apple has been trying to convince app developers to create augmented reality apps, mixing real-world action and animation. This year, Apple has tripled its bet, updating its RA tools with new software.

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Ayush is sold. "I really want to code with that," he says.

AR has not yet taken off because it's "really new and hard to use" for creating applications, he says. "You must have a flat surface and everything must work properly." The new tools, called by ARKit 3 by Apple, make it easier, he said.

The Apple Scholarship Program offers young app makers a free WWDC19 ticket (over $ 1,000), conference accommodation, and one year of Apple Developer Program membership.

The minimum age to participate is 13, but for Ayush, Apple has made an exception.

Click on the link below to listen to our interview Talking Tech with Ayush.

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