Rep. Darin LaHood has named Kavi Praanesh of Dunlap High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Illinois’s 16th District. Their app MeloCognia is an ML (AI)-powered health assistant designed to help detect Parkinson’s early using a combination of voice analysis and symptom tracking.
Rep. Madeleine Dean has named Lillian Cheng of The Hill School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Pennsylvania’s Fourth District. Their app Glitched is a story-based video game designed to raise awareness about adolescent mental health, specifically the impact of anxiety.
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke has named George Crawford of Bard High School Early College Manhattan as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in New York’s Ninth District. Their app EvolutionHQ is an educational platform to help high school students taking biology, including AP and dual-enrollment students, comprehensively understand evolutionary biology and all of […]
Rep. Christopher Deluzio has named Kavin Puri of North Allegheny Senior High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Pennsylvania’s 17th District. Their app ScholarSite is developed to consolidate many educational programs in different categories—such as scholarships, grants, courses, training programs, and summer programs—in one place, so that students and parents […]
Rep. Brittany Pettersen has named Amy Zhang of Lakewood High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Colorado’s Seventh District. Their app EnAct allows vision-impaired users to follow its executable guidance to interact with the environment, enabling activities such as cooking, cleaning, and more, thus improving independence and quality of life […]
Rep. Brandon Gill has named Tanish Chauhan of Prosper High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Texas’s 26th District. Their app Hedgex is a comprehensive stock market education platform built with Flask and yfinance that teaches people everything about investing while letting them practice in a risk-free environment.
Rep. Don Beyer has named Deepthi Kumar of Thomas Jefferson High School For Science and Technology as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Virginia’s Eighth District. Their app EquiLense uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze news and social media, helping people see where bias exists, who gets […]
Rep. Gus Bilirakis has named Darren Lau of Academy at the Lakes as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Florida’s 12th District. Their app SpectraAid is a tool built for people with color vision deficiencies (CVD), also known as color blindness.
Rep. Andrew Ogles has named Rohan Gunasekar of Ravenwood High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Tennessee’s Fifth District. Their app DermaTrack is a health management application designed to help children and parents track and manage chronic skin conditions in a simple, engaging, and organized way.
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie has named Devansh Garg of Parkland High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Pennsylvania’s Seventh District. Their app SafeStep detects obstacles and drop-offs (such as curbs) in front of users.