{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://raskin.house.gov/2022/12/raskin-announces-climate-action-app-clima-as-winner-of-2022-md-08-congressional-app-challenge", "Raskin Announces Climate Action App \u2018Clima\u2019 as Winner of 2022 MD-08 Congressional App Challenge", "2022-12-09", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "House", "MD", "Jamie Raskin", "R000606", "raskin.house.gov", "raskin", "https://raskin.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "ROCKVILLE, M.D. \u2014 At the close of Computer Science Education Week, Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) announced the winners of the 2022 Congressional App Challenge. This year\u2019s winners are Yixuan Li and Brian Mason of Walt Whitman High School, 11th grade students who created Clima, an app that gamifies carbon reduction through a creative user-driven experience. Clima rewards users points for taking sustainable actions in their home and community, like recycling bottles, washing laundry with cold water and more to earn points and care for a virtual sapling that grows as players complete green activities.\n\n\u201cYixuan and Brian\u2019s inventive app Clima makes individual climate action accessible and fun\u2013a perfect demonstration of the boundless creativity and public spirit that live among young people,\u201d said Rep. Raskin. \u201cNot only am I impressed by their pure technological savvy, I am heartened by Yixuan and Brian\u2019s commitment to sustainability. Thanks to every student who entered my competition, and to the teachers, mentors and family of the 8th District who have supported our next generation of coders.\u201d\n\nRep. Raskin also featured Yixuan and Brian as \u201cLocal Heroes\u201d on his weekly video series, available here.\n\nThe Congressional App Challenge began in 2014 in an effort to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and to encourage students to develop coding and computer science skills. Students in participating congressional districts compete against their peers by creating original software applications (\u201capps\u201d). Winning apps are featured on the U.S. House of Representatives' website, the Congressional App Challenge website, and are displayed in a U.S. Capitol Building exhibit.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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://raskin.house.gov/2022/12/raskin-announces-climate-action-app-clima-as-winner-of-2022-md-08-congressional-app-challenge"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4340877532958984, "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"}