ServeSync wins Rep. Morgan McGarvey’s 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Kentucky’s Third District

When asked what inspired the creation of ServeSync, the students said, “As dedicated members of several volunteer clubs, our team has experienced firsthand how frustrating managing service activities can be. Picture this: you’ve spent hours serving meals at a shelter, only to realize the paper verification form is sitting on your kitchen counter at home. Or worse, you brought it but lost it somewhere among other papers and assignments. Those hours of service are now impossible to verify. And even when you manage to keep track of the paper form, you still have to fill out a separate Google form with the same information—doubling the work for no good reason.

“From the leadership side, the challenges are just as significant. Club officers spend hours sorting through spreadsheets where each cell could contain an error, and each row represents a volunteer waiting for hour approval. Paper forms pile up, emails flood in with questions about denied hours, and the administrative work is scattered across multiple apps and platforms. It’s like trying to coordinate everything when nothing is connected—inefficient and exhausting.

“We knew there had to be a better way. We wanted to build a solution that would let both leaders and volunteers focus their energy on what actually matters: serving the community. Volunteer work builds stronger communities and instills values of service and kindness in people of all ages. It’s work that genuinely matters.

“But we’ve also seen how poor organization discourages participation. People want to volunteer, but they don’t want to fight through administrative chaos to do it. ServeSync was born from this problem—a platform designed to eliminate the bureaucratic headaches and make volunteering as straightforward and rewarding as it should be.”