Check-In wins Rep. Joe Neguse’s 2022 Congressional App Challenge in Colorado’s Second District

When asked what inspired the creation of Check-In, the students said, ”In school, we saw a struggle with attendance in many classes, club meetings, and events. In classes, some teachers are unable to do their attendance in a quick and organized manner, therefore, having to spend large amounts of time from the class taking attendance. This also applied to club meetings and school events where a large majority of the time was spent getting attendance instead of actually presenting what needed to be said.

In general, it was a time waster. We saw a potential for an attendance app where the student submits their own attendance and the teacher does not have to spend their precious time doing attendance and can instead have more time to teach the class. Club meetings and events would significantly improve due to the efficiency of student-led attendance.

A couple of teachers recognized this problem and tried to make alternative solutions like using Google forms. Google forms, unfortunately, were never made to track the attendance of a school class and therefore lack in certain areas like preventing students from creating loopholes in a proper attendance. An app that can securely handle attendance with security measures, use a student-led attendance system to improve efficiency, and display neat and detailed attendance sheets is the solution to these problems. Luckily, that is what we have created.”