The CAC Team

Rep. Ed Case has named Aren Sawa of Mid-Pacific Institute as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Hawaii’s First District. Their app HawaiiAlert.jp is a bilingual disaster alert web app that automatically collects official emergency alerts from the U.S. National Weather Service and delivers accurate Japanese translations to users in real time.

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart has named Dallas Szittai of Gulf Coast High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Florida’s 26th District. Their app Warn.live is a fully functional web application that helps people stay informed and safe during severe weather.

Rep. Ben Cline has named Iacopo Schianchi of John Handley High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Virginia’s Sixth District. Their app Vantage AI is an AI research assistant that helps researchers and students find answers based on scientific literature.

Rep. Nicholas Begich has named Dalton Donley of Eagle River High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Alaska’s At-Large District. Their app AK Bush Weather runs a risk assessment of the weather surrounding an airport and provides pilots with a rating based on weather and flight hours to give them […]

Rep. Chellie Pingree has named Isaiah Whitehead of Gorham High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Maine’s First District. Their app, Calculation Salvation, is a tool that enables the user to practice arithmetic in a way that is both simple and intuitive, as well as practical and multifunctional.

Rep. Val Hoyle has named Rylan Pierce of Siuslaw High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Oregon’s Fourth District. Their app Generations Connect allows senior citizens to post paid tasks like yardwork, technology assistance, and errands for local high schoolers to complete.

Rep. Tim Burchett has named Ananya Madduri of Maryville High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Tennessee’s Second District. Their app FairShare is a digital platform designed to streamline food bank operations and make food distribution more organized and fair.

Rep. Shontel Brown has named Aditya Samprathi of University School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Ohio’s 11th District. Their app Sanskriti App is a comprehensive digital companion designed to help Indian immigrants confidently settle into their new lives in the United States.

Rep. Richard Neal has named Jonah Sanabria of Monument Mountain High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Massachusetts’s First District. Their app Health Advocate acts as a patient advocate for anyone visiting a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare provider.

Rep. Josh Riley has named Andrew Appleman of Maine-Endwell High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in New York’s 19th District. Their app Evalu-AIde, MD uses a specially designed artificial intelligence model to diagnose health issues.