Bored of Board Game Searching wins Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s (TX-02) 2020 Congressional App Challenge

Rep. Dan Crenshaw has named Zachary Voltz and Adam Gensheimer from Saint Thomas High School as the winners of the 2020 Congressional App Challenge in (TX-02). 

When asked what inspired the creation of Bored of Board Game Searching the students said, “My family and I play board games a lot. However, since there are six of us, we have a hard time finding one game we can all agree on. We ended up making a chart but that is much more user intensive so I decided to make an app that can handle most of it for us.”

Over 6,500 students registered for the 2020 Congressional App Challenge. These students created and submitted 3,088 functioning apps, marking the end of an extremely successful Congressional App Challenge amid the COVID-19 pandemic. All told, 308 Members of Congress hosted Congressional App Challenges in their districts across 49 states, Puerto Rico, the Mariana Islands, and Washington, DC.

The CAC is an initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives, where Members of Congress host competitions in their districts for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science. The Internet Education Foundation provides the CAC with supplemental support. In the six years of the Congressional App Challenge, thousands of functional apps have been created by over 30,000 students, and participant demographics surpass all industry diversity metrics.