Rep. Kevin Mullin has named Ryan Chou of Westmoor High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in California’s 15th District. Their app CivicsEd is a cross-platform web application that gives students and educators the tools they need to succeed in civics education.
Rep. Herb Conaway has named Adi Khurana of Moorestown High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in New Jersey’s Third District. Their app AlertNow is a real-time, low-cost, multimodal threat-detection system designed to identify gun threats in schools by combining audio and video AI models.
Rep. Seth Magaziner has named AraOluwa Adetunji of East Greenwich High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Rhode Island’s Second District. Their app MinPlan is a digital college planner application that stores the user’s college info and the tasks that they need to get done.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi has named Rahul Hira of San Francisco University High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in California’s 11th District. Their app UHS is a platform for San Francisco University High School students that centralizes announcements, clubs, events, lunch menus, and school links.
Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet has named Diya Ramakrishnan of Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Michigan’s Eighth District. Their app PRISM is a mixed-reality web application designed to assist surgeons and radiologists during the process of pancreatic surgery.
Rep. Andrew Clyde has named Krish Tripathy of Woodward Academy as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Georgia’s Ninth District. Their app Pulmo Lens is a deep learning based web application that helps healthcare professionals detect pneumonia from chest X-rays faster and more accurately.
Rep. Mike Ezell has named Jiarui Xie of Oak Grove High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Mississippi’s Fourth District. Their app Emobot is an interactive learning app for children with autism to strengthen their ability to recognize and understand emotions in human speech.
Rep. Jonathan Jackson has named Saanika Dutta of University of Chicago Laboratory Schools as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Illinois’s First District. Their app Bias Lite is designed to help users recognize and reduce gender bias in their writing.
Rep. Sean Casten has named Maclane Zich of Benet Academy as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Illinois’s Sixth District. Their app HeadacheWise is an iOS application that records, organizes, and analyzes headache data to help users identify patterns and contributing factors to recurring migraines.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has named Kento Sugiyama of Iowa City West High School as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Iowa’s First District. Their app CoFIS: Community-Oriented Flood Information System is a web-based application for scenario-based flood inundation mapping and impact analysis.