CVU Student Recognized for Innovative App Design

Congratulations to Clay Nicholson, a 10th grader from Williston, who was selected by US Representative Becca Balint's office as this year's Vermont winner of the Congressional App Challenge. Clay submitted the video below as part of his application. In the video, Clay outlined his app called Lexiscan. Clay not only conceptualized the idea but also brought it to life by personally developing the app. In his video, he shares that his motivation stemmed from observing the challenges faced by a friend with dyslexia while reading. We highly recommend viewing the video.

This is the third year in a row that a CVU student has been recognized for this contest! Way to go CVU computer science! 

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 their annual #HouseOfCode festival. The program is a public-private partnership made possible through funding from Omidyar Network, AWS, theCoderSchool, Facebook, Replit, Accenture, and others.

Thank you to Becca Balint for supporting this effort. At this time, the Congressional App Challenge website has not yet been updated to showcase the 2023 winners. 

See our posts about the other CVU winners! 

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Congratulations, Clay!