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       CHS Student Wins Congressional App Challenge for California’s 52nd District

An application program (App) is a computer program designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Many people use apps on different devices. Apps are beneficial in people's lives for different reasons. Many people think that creating an app is difficult depending on the purpose of the app itself. But that might not be the case for other people. Their are many easier methods that can be used to create these apps. People in different age ranges could create an app. 

In the article, "CHS Students Win Congressional App Challenge for California's 52nd District" it talks about how students in California have won a contest that required to create an app using their coding and computer science skills. The article stated the following, "The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in coding and computer science. In all, 190 Congressional districts across 42 states hosted app challenges for their student constituents. Congressional participation was widespread and remarkably bipartisan. The office of Representative Scott Peters is happy to announce California’s 52nd Congressional District winner to be the Rescue app created by Padraig MacGabann. Padraig currently attends Coronado High School in Coronado, California. He is a Boy Scout and a member of Project Lead the Way. Padraig created this app to make text-to-911 more efficient, and make proofs-of-concept for automated emergency dispatch and location tracking during internet failure because the current emergency response system often fails during natural disasters. “Time is precious in a disaster, so automating parts of the process would save many lives,” Padraig suggested."

 What I found interesting about this article was how many participants were involved in this contest from different states across the U.S. Another thing I found interesting was, the winner of this contest had, a very well-developed app that could help many people if it were a real app. As well as the thought behind creating this app. 

 Link to full article: 
https://coronadotimes.com/news/2017/12/23/chs-student-wins-congressional-app-challenge-californias-52nd-district/#

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