WUSA 9 NewsWASHINGTON — Three Montgomery County students have been selected as winners of Representative Jamie Raskin’s 2025 Congressional App Challenge , the congressman announced on Tuesday.
The winners included Kevin Xia and Ryan Chen, a junior and a senior from Walt Whitman High School, and Peter Xiao, a senior at Montgomery Blair High School.
The trio won with their app SafeStride, which uses the phone’s camera feed to identify safe ground, Raskin’s office noted in a press release. The user is alerted through their earbuds to avoid obstacles as they move.
The Congressional App Challenge is held in a number of districts across the country. The program was initiated in 2013 when congressional leaders and leaders from the Internet Education Foundation wanted to create a program that grew int
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