Every year, Apple selects 350 students worldwide who are given the chance to attend the infamous worldwide developers conference, WWDC, in San Jose, fully free of charge. Applicants are judged on a coding submission and written essays.
My submission is built around how atomic clocks work. Due to a power outage in Eastern Europe in early 2018, the AC frequency wasn't at its regular 50 Hz for a few weeks (more in this article). Because of this, most clocks around the house were off by 5-6 minutes, while my iPhone was not. This got me wondering how atomic clocks help GPS satellites and NTP servers keep time accurately to the nanosecond.
Apple awarded me a WWDC18 scholarship. In June 2018, I went down to San Jose, California for a week of pure fun.
