EcoGoal wins Rep. Kweisi Mfume’s 2024 Congressional App Challenge in Maryland’s Seventh District

When asked what inspired the creation of EcoGoal, the students said, “Before starting the challenge, we extensively researched potential problems affecting those around us in our school. Having asked club leaders, teachers, and students alike, we eventually narrowed down our app to benefit and enhance clubs and accordingly narrowed down our investigations to club leaders and members. After reaching out to leaders of various clubs in my school community, we found a common thematic problem with all of them. Regardless of the club, most of them needed help organizing events or hosting club meetings effectively.

 
For example, our school has an environmental protection club that often hosts events to encourage more composting of school food after lunch and to clean up surrounding environments near our school. Unfortunately, we noticed that the club leaders or members usually have trouble communicating with their members or others whom they wish to inform (i.e., reminding the general student body to be vigilant of composting) and also don’t have a way to share their objectives and tasks effectively. We developed this application to cater to club leaders and other clubs in general who want to inform others of their goals. We hope that our application will provide an easy-to-use yet powerful service for communication and planning for not just our environmental sustainability clubs but also any school club or organization that is centered around tasks.”