A pair of students from Santa Barbara High School (SBHS) recently created an award-winning, local solution to a nationwide problem: the shortage of student engagement in school clubs.
Christian Sanchez, a senior, and Antonio Ayala, a sophomore — primed with knowledge gleaned from the school’s Computer Science Academy — developed a web app last year to increase student connection at SBHS using an anti-cyberbullying approach.
As a result, the students won the 2022 Congressional App Challenge, and were honored by Congressmember Salud Carbajal last month. In addition, the students got to meet with Carbajal — whom they referred to as a “cool guy” — to have a conversation about the app’s potential.
