# Inspiration for students

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104>\
**Category:** Unit and Lesson Discussion\
**Tags:** csd-unit-1, csd-unit-1-lesson-8\
**Created:** [February 2, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104 "2018-02-02T15:01:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ccagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ccagle](https://forum.code.org/u/ccagle)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104/1 "2018-02-02T15:01:05Z")

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This is a great resource to use to inspire your students:  
[The Congressional App Challenge (CAC) is a public effort to encourage kids to learn how to code, through annual district-wide competitions hosted by Members of Congress for their district.](http://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/about/2017-winners/)

Each winning app has a short video summary.

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**Author:** ![ccagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ccagle](https://forum.code.org/u/ccagle)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104/2 "2018-02-02T15:38:29Z")

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My class noticed that Indiana is not well represented in the winners’ list (or in the number of representatives who sponsor the challenge) so we are writing to our Rep to ask that he opt-in so our school can compete in the next challenge.

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**Author:** ![bradleywellsashley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/bradleywellsashley/32/522_2.png) [@bradleywellsashley](https://forum.code.org/u/bradleywellsashley)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104/3 "2018-02-03T16:02:18Z")

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Chantal,

That’s great - getting students involved in a grassroots effort when they feel under represented is a GREAT lesson. Also keep this in mind for Unit 4 as students are diving into App Development more with the Design Process in mind and using empathy to diving their designs. You might want to look ahead and check out some of those lessons to help guide students.

Great work!

Brad

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**Author:** ![ccagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ccagle](https://forum.code.org/u/ccagle)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104/4 "2019-01-17T14:30:14Z")

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[https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/](https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/)  
This is an updated link to the Congressional App Challenge as the previous one now returns a 404 error.

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**Author:** ![bradleywellsashley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/bradleywellsashley/32/522_2.png) [@bradleywellsashley](https://forum.code.org/u/bradleywellsashley)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/inspiration-for-students/14104/5 "2019-01-21T17:44:58Z")

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Thanks for updating!