{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases/bonamici-announces-winner-oregon-first-districts-annual-congressional-app", "Bonamici Announces Winner of Oregon First District\u2019s Annual Congressional App Challenge", "2022-11-22", "2022", "2022-11", "Democrat", "House", "OR", "Suzanne Bonamici", "B001278", "bonamici.house.gov", "bonamici", "https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. [11/22/22] \u2013 Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici announced that a team of 8th graders \u2013 Nivedha Sathish Kumar, Sahana Muthaiya, and Anusha Jeyakumar \u2013 won the 2022 Congressional App Challenge for Oregon\u2019s First Congressional District.\n\nSathish Kumar and Jeyakumar are students at Stoller Middle School and Muthaiya is a student at Tumwater Middle School.\n\nTheir app, BikeBetter, aims to help bicyclists safely plan their routes and avoid high-crash areas. It uses Oregon Department of Transportation crash data collected over 13 years to create a crash zone heatmap, showing users what streets are safe relative to others. Combining this data with the Google Maps application programming interface allows users to create a route between two addresses with high-crash zones marked on the map, helping the user choose an alternate route if needed.\n\n\u201cCongratulations to Nivedha, Sahana, and Anusha for winning the 2022 Congressional App Challenge,\u201d said Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. \u201cThese bright students identified a problem \u2014finding safe bike routes\u2014and came up with an innovative solution that can benefit the community and the environment. I look forward to seeing what these talented coders create next.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are thrilled about winning the Congressional App Challenge!\u201d said the winning 8th grade team. \u201cCongresswoman Suzanne Bonamici provided a great platform to express our talents. Special gratitude to our teachers and mentors who taught the basics of coding. We hope to expand our reach by incorporating other cities and increase its impact on bike safety!\u201d\n\nYou can view a video presentation of the app here.\n\nJudges gave an honorable mention to the team of Tai Wong, King Hey Chan, Jonathan Hu, and Anderson Men for their app, Focused. The app is designed to help users with ADHD and procrastination issues to better track deadlines and assignments through alarm notifications and music. Wong, Chan, and Men are students at Sunset High School and Hu is a student at Westview High School.\n\nYou can view a video presentation of Focused here.\n\nA panel of expert judges from Northwest Oregon selected the winning app. The judges evaluated the submissions for creativity, originality, user experience, and design. The three judges were:\n\nSheri Dover, Director, PDX Code Guild\n\nRihana Mungin, Interim Executive Director & Board Co-Chair, PDXWIT\n\nKatie SanFilippo, Chief Executive Officer, ChickTech\n\nBonamici recognized the winning students in a virtual reception with students from Oregon's First District who submitted entries. The winning app will be featured in the U.S. Capitol Building and on the House of Representatives website.\n\nBonamici is a founder and co-chair of the Congressional STEAM Caucus, which advocates for the integration of the arts and design into science, technology, engineering, and math education to encourage creative thinking and engage more students. By supporting and recognizing young programmers, Congress is acknowledging the importance of these fields. The U.S. House of Representatives organizes the nationwide Congressional App Challenge each year.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:24:37Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases/bonamici-announces-winner-oregon-first-districts-annual-congressional-app"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8850307203829288, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}