Budding developers win Lieu’s contest
Julian Quevedo and Koray Mentesoglu, winners of the Congressional App Challenge, speak to the Redondo Beach Unified School Board on Jan. 14. Photo Two Redondo Union High School seniors were honored at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Redondo Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education. Julian Quevedo and Koray Mentesoglu, respectively, won first place and honorable mention in the 2019 Congressional App Challenge, sponsored by Representative Ted Lieu. Quevedo and Mentesoglu supported each other throughout development of their applications, and together lead RUHS’s Hack Club. Both were introduced to coding through a computer science class they took a year prior. Last summer, both also participated in internships with Boeing. The Congressional App Challenge is a competition aimed at encouraging students to learn to code by creating their own applications. It is open to middle and high school students who either reside or attend school in California’s 33rd Congressional District. The first-place winner’s app is eligible to be featured in the U.S. Capitol Building and at House.gov. Additionally, the winner receives Amazon Web Services Credits and is invited to the #HouseOfCode DC…
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