Congresswoman Tenney Recognizes Logan Henyan, Winner of Congressional App Challenge

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) yesterday recognized Logan Henyan as the winner of this year’s Congressional App Challenge in a speech on the Floor of the House of Representatives.

Logan is an eighth grade student at Chenango Valley Middle School. His application, “STUDDY BUDDY,” provides students with academic assistance from peers while allowing them to build lasting friendships.

The Congressional App Challenge launched in 2016 and is an “officially-sanctioned” congressional program providing students the opportunity to develop and submit technology applications. In the first four years of the program, the App Challenge received submissions from 14,000 students across 48 states.

A clip of Tenney’s full remarks can be found here.

Mister Speaker,

I rise today to recognize Logan Henyan, the Congressional App Challenge winner for New York’s Twenty Second District.

Logan is not your typical App Challenge participant. I say that not because he isn’t well versed in coding, he certainly is. I say that because Logan is only an eighth grader at Chenango Valley Middle School.

Logan’s “STUDY BUDDY” app is a Student-to-Student application. It provides students with much needed assistance, and it does so while building lasting friendships.

New York’s Twenty Second District has a rich history in the technology sector. It is the birthplace of industry giants like IBM and Singer Link. The tradition continues now at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, the Marcy Nanocenter, and perhaps most importantly, in the minds of the next great generation of inventors and innovators like Logan.

And so, I ask my colleagues to please join me in congratulating Logan Henyan and all the competitors in this year’s Congressional App Challenge. Thanks to these young people, our future is a bright one.

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