{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-announces-launch-of-2021-congressional-app-challenge", "Emmer Announces Launch of 2021 Congressional App Challenge", "2021-06-29", "2021", "2021-06", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Tom Emmer", "E000294", "emmer.house.gov", "emmer", "https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) announced today that he will be participating in the 2021 Congressional App Challenge.\n\n\u201cIn an increasingly digital world, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills are important now more than ever,\u201d said Emmer. \u201cThis Congressional competition encourages middle and high school students from all over the nation to develop their own software application, or app.\u201d\n\nEmmer continued, \u201cTaking this time to learn a new skill like app development can only help expand student\u2019s skillsets and prepare them for careers of the future. I am looking forward to seeing what the students of Minnesota\u2019s Sixth Congressional District come up with!\u201d\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Congressional App Challenge is an initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of Congress can host district-wide contests for students in middle school and high school. To participate, students are encouraged to register and submit their original apps for this year\u2019s Congressional App Challenge by November 1, 2021.\n\nThe Challenge accepts computer programs (or apps) written in any programming language, for any platform (desktop/PC, web, mobile, raspberry Pi, etc).\n\nTo learn more about the rules and requirements of the Congressional App Challenge, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:57:00Z"]], "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://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-announces-launch-of-2021-congressional-app-challenge"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 9.12533886730671, "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"}