{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://flood.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-flood-announces-2023-congressional-app-challenge-winner", "Congressman Flood Announces 2023 Congressional App Challenge Winner", "2023-11-16", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "NE", "Mike Flood", "F000474", "flood.house.gov", "flood", "https://flood.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013Today, U.S. Congressman Mike Flood announced Adam Khattak, a Lincoln Southwest High School student, as the Congressional App Challenge (CAC) winner for Nebraska\u2019s First Congressional District.\n\nFor the challenge, Khattak coded an app called \u201cAI Corn Disease Detector.\u201d The application allows users to upload pictures of crops, and then the app would detect if they had any diseases.\n\n\u201cThe CAC is meant to challenge middle and high school students to code and pursue careers in computer science, but it also brings forth great apps that can truly be helpful,\u201d Rep. Flood said. \u201cI\u2019m very impressed with Adam\u2019s work. Agriculture is Nebraska\u2019s top industry, and applications like this one can be beneficial not only to our ag producers here but to farmers around the world.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt was an honor to participate in and to be named the winner for the First Congressional District App Challenge,\u201d said Adam Khattak. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of cool innovation being done in ag technology, which inspired me to focus in this area. My app has a very practical purpose, and I hope to build on this success as I dig deeper into the field of coding for ag producers.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe corn disease detection application is an excellent and promising tool that can assist farmers and potentially manage different crop diseases. Adam has done a fantastic job and created something that can have an immediate impact,\u201d wrote a member of the review committee. \u201cIt is so refreshing to see these young people being creative and innovative with something benefits the agriculture community.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "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://flood.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-flood-announces-2023-congressional-app-challenge-winner"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5726371202617884, "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"}