{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://frelinghuysen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=2&itemid=1328", "Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen Announces Congressional App Challenge Winner", "2016-12-22", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "NJ", "Rodney Frelinghuysen", "F000372", "frelinghuysen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen Announces Congressional App Challenge winner\r\n\r\n\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) has announced a team of high school students from Wayne have won the third Congressional App Challenge.\u00a0 Teammates Kelly Wallert (Wayne Hills), Sangjun Ko (Wayne Hills), and Sruthi Soorian (Wayne Valley) created an app called \u201cBook Browser.\u201d \u00a0\r\n\r\n\t\u201cFor the third year, I have been highly impressed by the STEM education and coding ability displayed by high school students of my Congressional District in the Congressional App Challenge,\u201d Frelinghuysen said.\u00a0 \u201cAfter viewing the student app submissions, I remain confident that the future of our nation\u2019s technological prowess is in the most capable hands.\u00a0 Congratulations to Kelly, Sangjun, and Sruthi on their fantastic work.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u201cNothing is more important to our Nation\u2019s continued economic strength than developing the talents and expertise of students interested in STEM fields,\u201d Frelinghuysen continued.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tThe Congressionally chartered \u201cCongressional App Challenge\u201d is a competition aimed at encouraging U.S. high school students to learn how to code by creating their own applications. The Challenge is intended to highlight the value of computer science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and encourage students to engage in these fields. By encouraging and recognizing our nation\u2019s young programming talent, Congress hopes to shine a light on the growing importance of these skills.\r\n\r\n\tThe winning application, \u201cBook Browser,\u201d is an app designed to allow school libraries to communicate with one another to share book resources, so that unwanted or old versions of books do not get wasted.\u00a0 View the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFR5_YMlP8.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tMore information about the competition can be found here: http://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://frelinghuysen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=2&itemid=1328"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.512587070465088, "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"}