{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kaptur-announces-winners-2024-9th-congressional-district-congressional", "Kaptur Announces Winners Of The 2024 9th Congressional District Congressional App Challenge", "2024-12-16", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Marcy Kaptur", "K000009", "kaptur.house.gov", "kaptur", "https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Toledo, Ohio \u2013 On Friday, December 16 Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), hosted a reception at the National Museum of the Great Lakes to honor winners and other outstanding submission for the 9th District Congressional App Challenge. Twenty applications from five schools in Ohio\u2019s 9th Congressional District competed this year including students from: Bryan Middle School, Sandusky High School, The Bounty Collegium, Sylvania Northview High School and Sylvania Southview High School. Erie, Lucas and Williams Counties were each represented. The top 3 finalists included representatives from Bryan Middle School, Sandusky High School, and Sylvania Southview High School, and were announced and presented certificates of achievement as part of the reception.\n\nThis year\u2019s 1st Place honorees were Luke and Harrison Spitnale of Bryan Middle School in Williams County, Ohio. Luke and Harrison are brothers in 8th and 7th grade and submitted the mobile application, \u201cThe Bee Keeper\u201d which is designed to assist beekeepers to check weather conditions for inspection and predict how much honey their hive will produce. Luke and Harrison were inspired to create their \u201capp\u201d because their family harvests bees. The winners of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge will be invited to attend a #HouseofCode reception in Washington, DC in the Spring of 2025. Luke and Harrison\u2019s app will be on display in the US Capitol Building and will be featured on House.gov for one year. In addition to this, their app will be featured on CongressionalAppChallenge.us.\n\n\u201cCongratulations to Luke and Harrison Spitnale of Bryan Middle School in Williams County, Ohio for winning Ohio\u2019s 9th District 2024 Congressional App Challenge. The Spitnale brother\u2019s mobile application, \u2018The Bee Keeper\u2019 is buzzing,\u201d said Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09). \u201cThis \u2018app\u2019 allows beekeepers to check weather conditions for inspection and predict how much honey their hive will produce. I appreciate all 20 submissions in this year\u2019s competition. Each team has shown passion and creativity through their work. They have also built critical computer science, engineering, and coding skills that prepare them for the workforce. I also want to extend special thanks to the outstanding computer science professionals and scholars from Northwest State Community College, University of Toledo, Lourdes University and Bowling Green State University- Firelands Campus for judging this year\u2019s competition.\u201d\n\nThis year\u2019s 2nd place honoree was Ishan Chopra of Sandusky High School in Erie County with his new financial literacy app, \u201cBuck$.\u201d Last year his his soccer App \u201cGOALS\u201d took first place. This year\u2019s 3rd place honorees were David Liu & Henry Shao of Sylvania Southview High School in Lucas County with their app \u201cSQUAREONE.\u201d Outstanding submissions were also received from The Bounty Collegium, Sylvania Northview High School and Sylvania Southview High School.\n\nA panel of judges selected winners and included administrators and professors specializing in computer science, engineering and the arts from higher education academic institutions within the 9th Congressional District. Judges included: Dr. Todd Hernandez, President of Northwest State Community College, Dr. Mary Robinson of Lourdes University, Dr. Nathan Percival of Bowling Green State University- Firelands Campus, and Dr. Robert Langenderfer and Dr. Ahmad Javaid of the University of Toledo.\n\nThe Congressional App Challenge is a yearly competition available to every Congressional District across the United States. The purpose of the challenge is to encourage students from schools across Congressional districts to compete by creating and submitting a mobile application. The competition is an opportunity for young adults to explore coding and computer sciences as a STEM education field. The engagement gives them an opportunity to learn and expand new skills that are advantageous to their future careers.\n\nIn 2013, leaders of the House of Representatives and the Internet Education Foundation sought avenues to acknowledge and celebrate computer science and STEM education. Later that year, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed House Resolution 77 \u2013 Academic Competition Resolution of 2013. This resolution was the architect for designing a computer science, or \u201capp\u201d competition that each House member could compete in. The inaugural Congressional App Challenge was held in 2015. Ohio\u2019s 9th Congressional District has participated in the Congressional App Challenge since 2019. In 2024, 20 teams registered for the 9th District challenge. In the first seven years of the Challenge, the Congressional App Challenge has inspired over 40,000 students across all 50 states to code for Congress.\n\nMore information on the Congressional App Challenge can be found by clicking here. Information about the 2023 9th District Congressional App Challenge winners and participants can be found by clicking here. Photos of the 9th Congressional District Congressional App Challenge recognition ceremony including of 1st and 2nd place winners can be found by clicking here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kaptur-announces-winners-2024-9th-congressional-district-congressional"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8163141794502735, "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"}