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