RxMind wins Rep. Joe Neguse’s 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Colorado’s Second District
Rep. Joe Neguse has named Anvay Sharma, Advit Singh, Shikhar Dey, and Rishabh Kapoor of Centennial High School and Fossil Ridge High School as the winners of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Colorado’s Second District. Their app RxMind aids patients in the recovery process once they are discharged from the hospital.
When asked what inspired the creation of RxMind, the students said, “After a night at the hospital, my grandma finally returned to us with a massive stack of discharge papers. Complicated medical terms and obscure instructions lined the pages for row after row. She was tasked to take several different medications, practice daily stretches and routines, and follow confusing guidelines to recover properly. My family and I wanted to do everything for my grandma and her health, but the stack of discharge papers took hours to comprehend and actually make sense of.
“This made me really understand people who have recently been discharged from the hospital or have a close one who has experienced the at-home recovery process. We sympathized with the less fortunate or the elderly who aren’t as familiar with medical language or following instructions, and wanted to provide them with a proper understanding of their discharge. We decided to make a tool that can unravel the mess that is medical discharge papers, and our solution to this was incorporating AI to get rid of the complexity. This would turn the discharge papers into something easily understandable on an app that can help in recovery.
“Our goal was to create an app that would alleviate the stress of understanding and maintaining a proper recovery, especially for certain people like my grandma.”
The 2025 Congressional App Challenge marked another record-setting year for the program. A total of 394 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosted App Challenges in their congressional districts, the highest level of participation in the program’s history. More than 13,800 students from across the country participated, submitting over 4,600 original apps focused on real-world challenges ranging from health and accessibility to education, sustainability, and civic engagement.
The Congressional App Challenge is an official initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives that encourages middle school and high school students to learn to code, explore computer science, and build practical technology solutions for their communities. Each participating Member of Congress selects a winning app from their district, and winning teams are invited to showcase their projects to Members of Congress, staff, and industry leaders at the annual #HouseOfCode celebration on Capitol Hill.
The Challenge is proudly bipartisan and reflects a shared commitment to expanding access to STEM education and preparing the next generation of American innovators for the future workforce. The program is a public-private partnership made possible through funding from the Broadcom Foundation, AWS, Infosys Foundation USA, theCoderSchool, Apple, and others.
The 2026 Congressional App Challenge will launch in May, and eligible students can pre-register for the competition now.