Green Warrior wins Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s 2021 Congressional App Challenge in Michigan’s 13th District

When asked what inspired the creation of Green Warrior, the student said, “The problems that my city faces are excessive amounts of garbage, used tires left in abandoned buildings, abandoned homes left unboarded up, and homelessness. In 2011, Detroit ranked dead last out of 27 North American cities in Siemens’ U.S. and Canada Green City Index, which measured environmental performance across nine categories, including waste.  Everywhere my students look all you see is trash around their neighborhood and in the parks where kids play. In Detroit a significant percentage of housing parcels in the city are vacant, with abandoned lots making up more than half of total residential lots in large portions of the city. With at least 70,000 abandoned buildings, 31,000 empty houses, and 90,000 vacant lots, Detroit has become notorious for its city’s urban decay. With high rates of poverty, low access to employment opportunities, and lack of resources It should not come as a surprise that the homeless rate is around 10,000 in Detroit. The goal of our project is to combat all four major problems by using technology.  We want to create an app called Green Warrior.”