Safeology wins Rep. Austin Scott’s 2022 Congressional App Challenge in Georgia’s Eighth District
Rep. Austin Scott has named Aarin Dave of Lowndes High School and Aarav Dave of Hahira Middle School as the winners of the 2022 Congressional App Challenge in Georgia’s Eighth District.
When asked what inspired the creation of Safeology, the students said, ”Our inspiration to create Safeology roots from the many dangerous incidents that compromised school safety over the last few years. In fact, some of these incidents occurred in our own county. As a result, the confidence students, parents, teachers, and staff have towards our school’s security was negatively impacted, and many parents are starting to worry about their children’s safety. With more research, we found out it was an important issue throughout the country, and its solution was yet to be found. With our desire to protect school children and keep them safe and rest assured, we took no time to get started on our submission. We created this app to ensure all schools are a secure and comfortable learning environment for everyone.”
The Congressional App Challenge smashed previous participation records in 2022. All told, 9,011 students registered for this year’s competition – creating 2,707 fully-functioning apps for 335 Members of Congress across 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the District of Columbia. This year’s competition set the record for most student registrations, most apps submitted, most apps per district submitted, and most districts receiving over 20 apps. The wildly successful competition continues to impress upon House Members the importance of computer science education and the need to develop a pipeline of diverse, domestic STEM talent.
The Congressional App Challenge is an official initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives, where Members of Congress host contests 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. Each participating Member of Congress selects a winning app from their district, and each winning team is invited to showcase their winning app to Congress during our annual #HouseOfCode festival. The program is a public-private partnership made possible through funding from Omidyar Network, AWS, Rise, theCoderSchool, Apple, and others.
The 2023 Congressional App Challenge will launch in June of 2023, and eligible students can pre-register for the competition now.