Easy Budgeting wins Rep. Burgess Owens’s 2021 Congressional App Challenge in Utah’s Fourth District

When asked what inspired the creation of Easy Budgeting, the student said, “To first provide a little context, my mother is the treasurer of our school’s local Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) branch. As she’s worked with their budget, I’ve noticed that she’s complained more than once about their current system. The PTSA has a strict set of rules and guidelines for how they are supposed to keep track of their income and expenses, which means that our PTSA has had to resort to using an over-complicated online budgeting site to manage their finances. The other main downside is that this site also charges high yearly fees for its usage. As such, I was inspired to create a program that would be able to fulfill these basic budgeting functions. My goal is to eventually present the app (free of charge) to the local, or possibly even the state PTA, so that they could use it as well. Committees across the entire state that are then experiencing the same struggle would then have access to my Easy Budgeting app. My hope is that through my efforts in addressing this small, yet costly issue, the PTSA can conserve and reallocate their money and time to projects that will actually benefit us as an educational community.”