LearnIT wins Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s 2025 Congressional App Challenge in New York’s Seventh District.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez has named Eduardo Almeyda of Queens Technical High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in New York’s Seventh District. Their app LearnIT helps students truly understand topics with a context-aware AI that summarizes, teaches, and quizzes students on videos they’re watching for class.
When asked what inspired the creation of LearnIT, Eduardo Almeyda said, “I love learning things in my free time through YouTube courses and tutorials, but I constantly had questions that the videos didn’t answer. I’d spend so much time trying to write the perfect prompt for an AI model, adding context about what video I was watching just to get relevant answers. This back-and-forth was exhausting and killed my learning momentum. I realized there had to be a better way—an AI that already knows what you’re watching and can answer questions instantly without all that setup.”
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.