Yashika Garg
Won 1st Place (FL-15) in the 2025 Congressional App Challenge for NeuroPath — per the official Congressional App Challenge FL15-25 winners page (Jan 20, 2026).
What they built
Co-built NeuroPath at age 15 — an AI-powered mobile app that uses machine learning to detect early signs of neurodegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's) through behavioral and cognitive assessments. The app is designed to make early diagnosis more accessible to patients and caregivers who lack access to expensive specialist evaluations. Yashika and her two Middleton High School teammates self-initiated the project outside of their regular school curriculum and entered it in national competitions; it won 1st Place in Florida's 15th Congressional District App Challenge (2025) and Best in Show (Secondary) at the Florida Invention Convention hosted by USF (April 2026), where it was recognized for its creativity, real-world impact, and problem-solving.
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Verified track record
- 1st Place, FL-15 Congressional App Challenge 2025 (congressionalappchallenge.us/fl15-25); Best in Show – Secondary, Florida Invention Convention @ USF, April 2026 (EurekAlert press release: eurekalert.org/news-releases/1124963); Hillsborough County Public Schools district news feature (hillsboroughschools.org/article/2549920 and hillsboroughschools.org/article/2830038); Florida Inventors Hall of Fame LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/florida-invents).