{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-announces-winner-of-2021-congressional-app-challenge", "Emmer Announces Winner of 2021 Congressional App Challenge", "2021-12-31", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Tom Emmer", "E000294", "emmer.house.gov", "emmer", "https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) announced his selection of the app Depression Revolution as winner of the Congressional App Challenge. The app was developed by Aryssa Trotter, a seventh-grader at Central Middle School in Norwood Young America.\n\nDepression Revolution is designed to connect Minnesotans suffering from mental illness with resources to help.\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s students are learning in a world of rapidly-developing technology. For our next generation of innovators, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills are more important than ever,\u201d said Emmer.\n\n\u201cThe promise shown by the young coders and developers of Minnesota\u2019s Sixth Congressional District is impressive.\u201d Emmer continued, \u201cI am encouraged to see young people recognize the potential of technology to combat our nation\u2019s mental health crisis.\u201d\n\nDepression Revolution will be displayed in the United States Capitol Building and featured on the House of Representatives\u2019 website, House.gov. Aryssa has also earned an invitation to the #HouseofCode Capitol Hill Reception in Washington, D.C.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Congressional App Challenge is an initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the most prestigious prize in student computer science. Members of Congress can host district-wide contests for students in middle school and high school.\n\nThe Challenge accepts computer programs (or apps) written in any programming language, for any platform (desktop/PC, web, mobile, raspberry Pi, etc). To learn more about the competition, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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-winner-of-2021-congressional-app-challenge"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.180103212594986, "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"}