Download Kode With Klossy’s Mobile App Challenge Playbook, a step-by-step guide to running a self-paced challenge where participants learn Swift, build an app that tackles a real-world problem, and pitch their project in Keynote at a live showcase.
What’s in our Playbook
You can download the playbook below to walk through every stage of the challenge. We've shared pro-tips throughout based on our experience running this program. In the playbook you'll find:
- Suggestions for how to design the challenge around Challenge Based Learning, with an open challenge statement and three pre-determined categories for student apps to fall into: Accessibility, Sustainability, and Community
- A suggested timeline built around an eight-week, self-paced build window
- Tips for how to handle device access, including how to make the challenge work on a Mac or an iPad
- A rubric for judging
- A guide for planning a live showcase where scholars can present their app and Keynote on a stage.
Included Resources
Linked in the Playbook (and found in this Box Folder) we are also sharing the materials we built so you can reuse or adapt them for your own community:
- The Mobile App Challenge Playbook (main guide)
- The Challenge Journal, built with Apple’s Community Education Initiative team, designed to guide scholars through stage of the app design process, and includes the evaluation rubric as well as a Keynote template (for their presentation).
- A curriculum overview with the full scope and sequence of our self-paced Swift curriculum
- A communications toolkit with templates for every email we sent, from sign-up to winner announcements
- A tech setup guide for Xcode and Swift Playgrounds, including how we handled loaner devices
- Examples of the scholar work that was selected for our showcases
- The deck we used to host the challenge kick-off call
About the Challenge
In summer 2026, Kode With Klossy took curriculum that was previously taught in a two-week Mobile App Development camp and adapted it into a self-paced challenge open to our entire community of 13,000+. Participants submitted apps and Keynotes pitch decks, ten were selected to presented live on stage at showcases in Chicago and San Francisco.
Running Your Own Challenge?
We’d love to hear about it! Share what you’re planning in the comments, or reach the Kode With Klossy team at partnerships@kodewithklossy.com.
We can’t wait to see what you build!
Attach up to 5 files which will be available for other members to download.