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In 2025, applicants were tasked with creating an interactive app playground on the topic of their choice to showcase their passion for coding. Here’s how Rodrigo describes his winning submission.

Vertigo is about fighting (literally) stress and anxiety using the power of music. A crazy story that might or might not make sense: team up with a haunted iPod to destroy your inner demons with a cool guitar. And even cooler, you can play guitar using the blink of your EYES. Powered by SpriteKit, I made more than 300 sprites for this, there's also some cool music that syncs up with the game and a boss fight with a big pig guy that tries to smash you while you run from meteors.