Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and the advisor for the competition, Andy Phelps, founding director of the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC), announced Ariel Viggiano as the winner for New York’s 25th Congressional District in the inaugural House of Representatives’ Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) App Challenge for high school students.
The competition aimed to promote interest and innovation in the fields of STEM.
The House STEM App Challenge called on high school students from across the country to submit ideas for a software application, or “app,” idea related to the STEM fields.
Ariel Viggiano of Spencerport High School was selected as the winner of Rep. Slaughter’s challenge which ran from February through April of this year. She is the daughter of Antonio and Sherry Viggiano.
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