Representative Adriano Espaillat Announces Congressional App Competition for Middle and High School Students in the District

WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) has launched the 2025 Congressional App Challenge, an annual competition designed to encourage student participation in computer science and coding. This year's competition is open to middle and high school students from New York's 13th congressional district, who may register via the onlineportal to have their app considered by the October 30th deadline.

Officially launched by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2015, this nationwide effort allows students to compete against their peers by creating an application (also known as an "app"). The Challenge is designed to promote innovation and engagement in computer science and accepts any programming language, such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or "block code."

The Congressional App Challenge is open to all middle and high school students in the 13th Congressional District of New York.

The winner from the New York's 13th congressional district will be featured on CongressionalAppChallenge.usamong winners from across the country.

For more information, please visit the official Congressional App Challenge website at CongressionalAppChallenge.usor contact Maximo Diaz, (212) 497-5959 or by email at [email protected]for more information.

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Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his fifth term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government's vital activities and serves as Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the committee during the 119th Congress. He is Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/.

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