{"id":334164,"date":"2026-08-31T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:04:47","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-students-compete-in-congressional-app-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334164\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Students Compete In Congressional App Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hundreds of students at the Bronx High School for Computer Science are putting their coding skills to the test as they compete in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Congressional App Challenge.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Students have been tasked with creating an app designed to address a problem in their community, with projects focusing on a range of real-world issues.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Participants say the competition gives them an opportunity to use technology to create solutions that can have a positive impact both locally and beyond.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The winning app will be announced on Friday and will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol, giving the student developers national recognition for their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of students at the Bronx High School for Computer Science are putting their coding skills to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-334164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}