Searchable, filterable archive of CAC district winners — app descriptions, categories & related projects included.
This dashboard indexes winning projects from the Congressional App Challenge (CAC) is the official U.S. House of Representatives student coding competition. Each record captures the year, state, congressional district, Member of Congress, app title, students, an auto-assigned theme (health, education, climate, civics, safety, productivity, social, or other), and — for about two-thirds of records — an app description, school, demo video, and a curated 18-way category taxonomy (Health & Medicine, Accessibility & Disability, Education & Learning, …).
Search is fuzzy (typo-tolerant) across app titles, descriptions, students, schools, members, states and districts. Filters for year, state, district, theme and category refine the results. Open any card for the full description plus up to five related projects (precomputed tf-idf similarity with a category-overlap boost). Click View source to open the official CAC project page.
Data is refreshed by scripts/scrape_cac.py, which scrapes every /{YEAR}-winners/ page and
tags each project with a rule-based theme classifier; descriptions, categories and related-project links are
merged in by scripts/enrich_cac.py. See the repo README for refresh instructions.