ANNOUNCEMENTS

WASHINGTON, DC – Today 190 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will announce the winners of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Over the last four months, thousands of students coded original apps as part of district-wide competitions hosted by Members of the House. The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in coding and […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today 190 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will announce the winners of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Over the last four months, thousands of students coded original apps as part of district-wide competitions hosted by Members of the House. The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in coding and […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today 190 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will announce the winners of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Over the last four months, thousands of students coded original apps as part of district-wide competitions hosted by Members of the House. The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in coding and […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today 190 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will announce the winners of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Over the last four months, thousands of students coded original apps as part of district-wide competitions hosted by Members of the House. The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in coding and […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today 190 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will announce the winners of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Over the last four months, thousands of students coded original apps as part of district-wide competitions hosted by Members of the House. The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in coding and computer science. In all, 190 Congressional […]

Last month at the 2017 CSforALL Summit in St. Louis, Rachel Decoste, Congressional App ChallengeDirector, highlighted the spectacular growth the program has made in just two short years. In her keynote to the nation’s leading stakeholders in computer science education, Decoste illustrated the tremendous reach of the App Challenge as well as its incredible diversity participation numbers. The […]

Congressional App Challenge Director Rachel Décoste addressed the 2017 CSforALL summit in St.Louis, Missouri. The summit featured leading computer science education stakeholders from across the nation to speak on behalf of their commitments to continue inclusive and accessible computer science education efforts among K-12 students. Décoste discussed the goals of the Congressional App Challenge as […]

More Than Half of U.S. House Members (and 1/2 of Congressional Black Caucus Members) Now Hosting Coding Contest for District Students In less than 3 years, the Congressional App Challenge has hit a major milestone now that 223 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are hosting youth coding contests in their respective districts — […]

In collaboration with Capitol Area Congressional offices, local app development and education experts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will hosted a program to support the Congressional App Challenge on September 23, 2017, at its Alexandria, VA headquarters. The program featured educational sessions that include instruction and hands-on learning activities for K-12 students. Rep Don […]