Vote on Lightning Talks: the Future of Technology at #HouseOfCode
Vote for the Future of TechnologyI!
The next generation of tech innovators is here! Over 400 winners of the Congressional App Challenge from 48 states are heading to Washington, D.C. for #HouseOfCode 2025, the nation’s largest student app demonstration.
Now, you get to decide which voices will take center stage. These winning students have submitted short talks on the future of technology,. Cast your vote for up to four lightning talks—the top vote-getters will present live at #HouseOfCode before an expert panel of AI professionals.
Update: Voting has now closed and the top six have now been finalized.
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Alene Abdulian (CA32)
Don’t Lift a Finger: How Brain-Computer Interfaces are Bringing Telekinesis to Life
Ayomade Adeolu-Akande (MD06)
Biohacking: Upgrading the Human Body
Boden Moraski (PA05)
AI, LeBron, and the GOAT Debate: Exploring Artificial System’s Role in Subjective Contexts
Cindy Lu (TX07)
Tech vs. Brainrot: Can We Stop Our Brains from Shrinking?
Ishaan Gupta (CA41)
Forging our Future: Finding Financial Literacy Through FinTech
Erica Zhang (NE02)
Technology and Creativity: How We Should Strive for a Future of Collaboration, Not Replacement
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Shivansh Sahni (MI09)
The AI Revolution in Medicine: A New Era of Healthcare
Ruzanna Gaboyan (OH11)
Technology’s Treadmill – Progress or Paradox?
Kempton Ballard (GA03)
Cyber Safety
Anisha Upasani (WA08)
Technology In Criminal Investigation
Cameron Mock (NJ04)
What Can Be Done To Create More Inclusion In Tech?
Idrees Ahmad (MN04)
How AI and Social Media Will Save — Or Destroy — Democracy
Vyshal Sreenivas (AZ05)
The Future of Finance and Technology
Suhana Chand (AZ08)
Talking to Ourselves Across Universes
Karthik Srikumar (CT01)
Redefining Us: Using AI to Bridge Socioeconomic Divides and Promote Our Shared Humanity
Vihan Raval (TX04)
AI in Medicine: Miracle or Mistake?
Seungyoo Kim-Jung (CA24)
AI and the Anti-Destruction of the Oceans
Ambrose Cole (PA04)
Technology and Teenage Mental Health: A Better Future
Jessica Schmilovich (FL22)
Brain-Computer Interfaces: When Thought Becomes Action
Jeongseop Yoon (CA45)
AI in Robotics
Rachel Kim (NJ05)
AI for Clean Air
Vyom Aggarwal (CA13)
A Quantum Leap Towards a Greener Future
Jiyoo Kim-Jung (CA24)
Dr. Dolittle, AI, and the Future of Biomedical Research
Vivek Raghavan (MD07)
A Paradigm Shift – How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Medicine Forever
Vishvak Gernapudi (MD02)
Artificial Intelligence – A New Age Tool to Build an Objective and Modern Way of Living
Celeste Roselli (GA05)
Energy-Efficient Computing: Optimizing Climate Technology’s Net Benefit
Shushan Arora (IL11)
Living Intelligence: The Future of Purpose-Driven Technology
Ashi Gupta (CA03)
Tech vs. Alzheimer’s: A Future of Hope
Pablo Badra (GA10)
The Deepfake Dilemma
Sahil Ghosh (NJ06)
Quantum Computing Meets AI: The Future of Power & Innovation
Aarnav Bujamella (VA10)
Quantum Computers: The Future of Impossible Calculations
Mihir Bamdhamravuri (CA26)
AI: The Key to Space
Erica Zhang (NE02)
Technology and Creativity: How We Should Strive for a Future of Collaboration, Not Replacement
Yuegelica Yeong (TX37)
Space Cities: From Sci-Fi to Sci-Reality
Krithik Alluri (NJ03)
AI in Personalized Medicine: Shaping the Future of Healthcare
Ishita Ahelleya (CA09)
Humatron
Anna Beischer (CA11)
You Are What You Eat: How Bias in the Underlying Training Data Feeds into AI Model Outputs
Tahan Bapna (HI01)
Satellite AI for a Greener Future
Sai Tejasvi Vegi (FL04)
Data, Defense, & Diagnosis: The Future of Innovation
Chanwoo Rhee (FL25)
Future of AI
Annie Bao (AL03)
How Technology is Solving Real-World Challenges
Shawn Li (SC06)
Ethical Responsibilities in AI Advancement
Aarav Chokshi (VA02)
Ctrl+Shift+BRAIN
Karthik Darisi (TX10)
Beyond the Cure: How AI Can Redefine Preventive Healthcare
Alex Tang (CA25)
Technology By Our Side
Cindy Lu (TX07)
Tech vs. Brainrot: Can We Stop Our Brains from Shrinking?
Sofie Chernyak (MI11)
Our Future with Multimodal Interaction
Ishaan Gupta (CA41)
Forging our Future: Finding Financial Literacy Through FinTech
Ayush Panda (PA01)
Revolutionizing Medicine: AI’s Transformative Impact on Healthcare
Sia Gupta (WA08)
The Cinema of Dreams
Poojak Patel (IL05)
Neural Hijack: When Hackers Tap Into Your Mind
Ella King (GA04)
From Sunlight to Solutions: AI’s Role in a Greener Future
Ashni Singh (FL16)
Learning with the Machine: How AI can Revolutionize Education
Nancy Tekityamazzi (MA04)
AI Loves Me, AI Loves Me Not: The Future of Human-Tech Relationships and If They Should Be Accepted
Iraj Shroff (AZ05)
The Quantum Era
Christopher Yoo (MA05)
The Future Will Not Be Owned—Unless We Take It Back
Saurish Tripathi (VA10)
Rebuilding the Internet: A Second Chance at Innovation
Ram Bhatnagar (AZ07)
AI and VR in Education
Yuran He (WA07)
Improvements in Technology Using Nature
Khyati Singh (TX36)
Reimagined Learning: The Power of Technology
Aryahi Tiwari (NC04)
Can Machines Truly Know?
Aadi Sanghvi (TX03)
AI Beyond Algorithms: Building Technology That Feels Human
Maya Trutschl (LA04)
Building a Superhuman: The Future of Prosthetics and Human Augmentation
Aadi Sobti (CO02)
AI & Understandability
Rohan Sareen (CT04)
From Silicon to Superpowers: The AI Cold War
Nikita Vijay (TX08)
The Next Evolution: Growing Technology for a Sustainable Future
Anthony Hernandez (CA39)
AI – The Future of Medicine and Cancer Detection
Ashton Stiner (CT02)
Uncovering the Blackbox
Sia Sood (MN01)
Mind Meets Machine: Harnessing the Power of Neurotechnology
Priya Riegle (NY19)
Cyber Security and the Future Of It
Jessica Park (NY23)
The Future of Creativity: Empowering Humans with AI
Alisa Salikhov (TX31)
Competition is Obsolete: How Human Survival Is At Stake In The Age of AI
Ranvir Singh (OH12)
The Connection Between Humans and Technology
Niranjan Janardhanan (CA45)
AI: Getting to Malware Before Malware Gets to Us
Isaac Zhang (AL03)
Human Connection to the Future of Generative AI
Ujesh Chakravarty (LA01)
AI in Mental Health: A Helping Hand or a Replacement?
Zain Shariff (WA10)
YOLO+Ultralytics: The Easy Solution to Almost Everything Image AI
Ayomade Adeolu-Akande (MD06)
Biohacking: Upgrading the Human Body
Alene Abdulian (CA32)
Don’t Lift a Finger: How Brain-Computer Interfaces are Bringing Telekinesis to Life
Liam Mpofu (PA04)
Neural Networks or Specialized Humans
Chilok Mak (FL14)
AI: Humanity’s Next Leap
Boden Moraski (PA05)
AI, LeBron, and the GOAT Debate: Exploring Artificial System’s Role in Subjective Contexts
Mithil Patil (CA18)
Do Robots Dream of Sheep: The Intersection of AI and Consciousness
Thaddeus Holston (MD05)
Quantum Simulations and the Technology of the Future
Efren Llanes (OK05)
Future Of Quantum Computing
Krishna Mano (MI03)
Farming for the Future: How Technology Can Revolutionize Precision Agriculture
Anish Ummadi (CA10)
The Future of AI: Merging Minds and Machines
Sonit Sahoo (IL11)
Quantum Computing: Hype, Reality, and the Road Ahead