Task Assigner wins Rep. Troy Balderson’s (OH-12) 2020 Congressional App Challenge

When asked what inspired the creation of Task Assigner, the student said, “My mother is a pathologist, and her pathology group similarly has to assign cases based on each pathologist’s qualifications, the types of cases, and how long it takes to do each case, among other variables. She told me about this, and I decided to make a program that streamlines this process.”

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.