Vote on Lightning Talks: the Future of Technology at #HouseOfCode 2026
Vote for the Future of Technology!
The next generation of tech innovators is here! Over 350 winners of the Congressional App Challenge from 48 states are heading to Washington, D.C. for #HouseOfCode 2026, 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.
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Joey Zambreno (IA03)
Ragebait Machines: How Social Media Algorithms Are Designed to Push Your Buttons
Max Bao-Dai (NC12)
Ours To Build
Vaibhav Sitaraman (NJ06)
The Future of Robotics
Peter Xiao (MD08)
Our Steps to the Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence
Aahana Ashok (MI11)
Three Seconds Is All It Takes – The Dangers Of AI
Jay Chauhan (VA01)
AI and Student Entrepreneurship
Rithik Sundaram (WA07)
Orbital Intelligence
Hannah Kim (GA07)
The Intelligence of “And”
Rohit Patel (TX02)
The Frontier Beyond
Gavin Vernon (NE02)
Protecting American Troops: Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Large Scale Warfare.
Aarit Atreja (CA06)
AI for Every Student: From Bootcamps to a National Movement and Research and Project Opportunities for CAC Students
Anika Jha (CA28)
When Computers Go Quantum
Allison Tan (PA05)
Turducken, AI, and the Future of Food Culture
Danny Paik (NJ05)
Artificial Intelligence as the Cure to Cancer
Nathan Chen (VA09)
Beyond Earth’s Limits – Integrating AI and Humanoid Technologies to Mitigate the Risks of Spacewalks
Atiksh Gupta (VA11)
The Help Trap
Lina Saruhan (CA03)
IF NOT US, THEN WHO?
Bettina Lee (CA33)
Technology and the iPad Kid Era: Are We Watching Cognitive Atrophy in Real Time?
Nandita Srikumar (OH07)
Digital Twins: The Future of AI in Surgery
Evina Shingavi (DE00)
The Fastest Responder Is Already There
Simon Wilke (MN01)
What If Your Best Friend Was AI?
Joshua Sambol (NJ12)
Humans the Minority
Roshan Naik (NC10)
Before Truth Disappears
Kavin Puri (PA17)
Technology in Healthcare: A CRISPR-Powered Genetic Revolution
Shivank Ahuja (TX37)
The Liquid Robots of The Future
Ananya Maduri (TN02)
Can AI Detect Alzheimer’s From the Way We Write?
Louis Gui (NY13)
The Future is Smaller Than We Think
Andrew Zhang (WA06)
The Future Relies on Imperfect Ambition
Krish Tripathy (GA09)
When AI Meets Finance: The New Era of Cybersecurity
Michael Zhang (NE02)
AI That Knows When It’s Wrong
Liam O’Donnell, Matthew O’Donnell, and Amir Manza (CO06)
AI: An Ersatz Collaboration
Tanish Chauhan (TX26)
Cognitive Offloading
Isaac Wu (MA08)
The AI Revolution Has Arrived. We Need Education.
Saisatvik Koppu and Gian Handa (CT01)
Are We Losing What Truly Makes Us Human?
Chloe Tao (TX32)
The In-between Future: A World Where Technology Serves Humanity
Amruth Achanta (TX02)
How AI and Social Media Are Fundamentally Changing Our Society
Adel Sisy (TX09)
The Future of AI in Education
Vignesh Nagarajan (AZ08)
If AI Can Explain Everything, Why Is Government Still So Hard To Understand?
Aditi Muthukumar (CO08)
We’re Not Waiting: How Gen Z Is Already Navigating the AI Future
Saanika Dutta (IL01)
Better Than the Status Quo
Rahul Hira (CA11)
Autonomous Vehicles: Building Driverless America
AraOluwa Adetunji (RI02)
Humanity in the Era of Superintelligence
Rohitha Baskaran (NV03)
404: Humanity Not Found
Ishan Ramrakhiani (IN03)
When AI Runs the Entire Research Loop
Abhiraam Venigalla (MA02)
Surgery Without Borders
John Bolden (MI04)
Merging AI and Nanotechnology for Medical Breakthroughs
Aryan Nair (TX15)
AI Orbits Earth
Darren Lau (FL12)
Augmented Reality: Turning the World into an Interface and the Future of Spatial Computing
Amrik Majumdar (VA11)
Architects of the Invisible: Steering AI from Sci-Fi to Social Good
Advika Rastogi (KY02)
Closing the Hearing Gap: AI and the Future of Accessible Tech
Vedant Dutta (TX04)
Introduction to Photonic Computing Systems
Kevin Xia (MD08)
AI & Assistive Tech — The Most Important Thing AI Will Ever Do (And No, It’s Not Chatbots)
Deepthi Kumar (VA08)
Geospatial AI and the Future of Urban Infrastructure
Saumit Pathak (CA19)
How AI Is Transforming Space Exploration
Marjan Latif (NY15)
The Age of Builders
Aarjit Adhikari, Namish Joshi, and Jovan Nadar (TX10)
The AI Equation: Balancing Developer Integrity and User Responsibility
Isabella Li and Hiya Pandey (WA01)
The Age of AI Doppelgängers
Arnav Shenoy (IL05)
Medical AI Can Save Billions — So Why Isn’t It?
Vishwas Tattala (MI07)
AI and Agritech
Jimmy Baynham (TN03)
The Power of Quantum Supercomputers
Agrima Bhutani (CA36)
The Future of Health and AI
Ishaanvi Vemula (IL11)
Building AI We Can Trust
Shivam Singh (CO05)
Please Enter Your Brain
Jonah Sanabria (MA01)
The AI That Saved Humans a Few Hundred Million Years, and What It Means for the Future
Srikar Karri (TX08)
The Last Generation
Aarin Dave and Aarav Dave (GA08)
Defending a Digital Nation: How the Stryker Cyberattack Foreshadows the Future of Health-Tech
Corbin Craig (FL17)
The Future Is About to Get Weird: Maybe That $900 of RAM Isn’t Just for AI Cat Videos—It Might Predict Your Grandma’s Next Fall
Shashank Madala (NJ10)
The Invisible Revolution: How Nanotechnology is Quietly Saving Our Water