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After a month's delay in the results, on Feb. 3, Rep. Debbie Dingell named Huron computer science students Aarnav Unadkat, Anthony Varkey and Peter Schwendeman as winners of the 2021 Congressional App Challenge in Michigan’s 12th District. This year, 7,174 students registered for the event. Crafting initial ideas of a time capsule or a note-taking app, the trio brainstormed their submission on a Discord call. Eventually Unadkat proposed an idea which he felt most high school students could relate to, leading to the development of Quillink—an app designed to provide objective writing feedback in an easily accessible format. “A lot of people don't have friends or other people that they can depend on to help them with writing,” Varkey said. “We thought that this would be a good idea to make it more open, so that anybody can submit something they've written and somebody else can try and help them, which is a very productive ecosystem.” The group also ran the web application team for Hur...

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