Cyberstudy wins Rep. Robert Aderholt’s 2021 Congressional App Challenge in Alabama’s Fourth District
Rep. Robert Aderholt has named Orlano Rodriguez – Valdez from Fort Payne High School as the winner of the 2021 Congressional App Challenge in Alabama’s Fourth District.
When asked what inspired the creation of Cyberstudy, the student said, “I believe people should start learning how to code as computer science based jobs are growing and there are not enough people to fill those jobs. I had the idea to create an app that helps people study structure, terminology, and syntax for different programming languages. This is how I learn material in my other classes and wanted to bring that option to computer science.”
The 2021 Congressional App Challenge yielded 2,101 fully functioning apps. After eighteen months of disruptions to educational cadences for students everywhere, the Congressional App Challenge came roaring back with 7,174 students registering for this year’s competition. All told, 340 Members of Congress hosted Congressional App Challenges in their districts across 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, D.C.
The Congressional App Challenge is an official initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives, where Members of Congress host contests 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. Each participating Member of Congress selects a winning app from their district, and each winning team is invited to showcase their winning app to Congress during our annual #HouseOfCode festival. The program is a public-private partnership made possible through funding from Omidyar Network, AWS, theCoderSchool, Facebook, Replit, Accenture, and others.
The 2022 Congressional App Challenge will launch in June of 2022, and eligible students can pre-register for the competition now.