Patrick Henry sophomore Benjamin Broudy was awarded top honors for the 2020 Congressional App Challenge hosted by the House of Representatives for the purpose of encouraging students to learn to code and inspire them to pursue careers in computer science. Ben represented District 53 which was under Susan Davis and now represented by Sarah Jacobs for his submission. Middle and High School students from all over the US submitted over 3,000 functioning apps representing 308 members of Congress making the competition extremely competitive. Ben’s app called “Train A Brain” dealt with neural networks that used artificial intelligence that takes arbitrary data and converts it to linear data. Ben will be invited to an Awards Ceremony hosted by the House of Representatives on April 8th. In addition to being in the Engineering/Computer Science pathways at Patrick Henry, he also is a member of Henry’s FIRST Robotics team where he likes to contribute by helping with coding the robot. When Ben is not doing his school work he enjoys gardening both inside and out and developing codes for automatic watering systems. Let’s congratulate Ben for his amazing accomplishments and success!
