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US Students Win App Challenge Helping Children in Disaster Areas

Durin Hendricks

   WASHINGTON - Winners are being announced for the 2019 Congressional App
   Challenge, an initiative taken by the United States Congress to
   encourage high school and middle school students across the country to
   get involved in computer science.

   The Congressional App Challenge has students designing apps that are
   then entered in competitions in their congressional district.

   More than 10,000 students across 304 congressional districts registered
   for this year's competition, the fifth year the challenge has been
   held.

   According to the Congressional App Challenge, 223 representatives held
   app challenges in their district in 2018, which was their previous
   record.

   For this year's challenge, 2,177 fully functioning apps were submitted.

   Texas Duo

   When Raina and Tracy are not playing tennis or making art, they are
   winning their district's Congressional App Challenge.

   The duo are now 10th graders in Texas' 22nd Congressional District,
   which largely covers the southcentral suburbs of Houston, Texas.

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