Granada High School Students Win Congressional App Challenge

A team of four Granada High School students won the 15th District Congressional App Challenge sponsored by Congressman Eric Swalwell. The team now moves on to the national competition.

The students from the winning team are Sam DeCosta, Meenakshi (Mannu) Singhal, Malvika Singhal, and Shannon Yan. Their app addresses stress in high school students. “We’re trying to create an app that can help people deal with negative emotions. When you are angry, sad, anxious, lonely or depressed you can go into the app, choose how you feel and receive positive messages to deal with that specific emotion in a productive way. In high school many students are stressed-out and don’t have good outlets to express their emotions. For students that don’t feel comfortable being public with their emotions this app would provide another way to cope,” says Meenakshi Singhal, one of the winning team members.

A local organization, knodemy, a mentor based computer coding academy located within iGate sponsored the event.

The Congressional App Challenge is aimed at encouraging U.S. high school students to learn how to code by creating their own applications.