Rep. Mfume Announces Winner of Congressional App Challenge

Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) has announced the winner of this year’s Congressional App Challenge for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. After deliberation by a panel of three distinguished judges the student team that received the highest score was EcoGoal by Peter Yang and Vivek Raghavan from Gilman School. 

Peter Yang and Vivek Raghavan from Gilman School, for their app, EcoGoal. EcoGoal was designed to help environmental organizations set, organize, and track goals in a private and collaborative space. The EcoGoal team used the programming language JavaScript to develop a web-based app for environmental organizations in particular to have access to a digital chatroom, to-do list, and have the ability to assign other users tasks. The app yields a communications and planning application that serves many purposes. 

Team provides a tutorial on their winning app

To view the full application profile for EcoGoal, here.  

Yang and Raghavan were inspired to create this app after contacting various leaders of clubs in their school community and discovering a common thematic problem with all of them: most of the clubs needed help organizing events, hosting club meetings effectively and communicating with the student body about their work and goals. 

"I was immensely impressed by the variety, creativity, and technological ability demonstrated by all of the submissions my office received for this year's Congressional App Challenge from Maryland's 7th Congressional District. I applaud Mr. Yang and Mr. Raghavan for ultimately being crowned the winners of this year's 'Challenge,' and I am confident this honor will propel both of these young coders in their journeys to become leaders in computer science, engineering and other STEM fields," said Mfume.