We are overjoyed to celebrate Preethi Nethi, a 7th grader at West Virginia Academy, who has been named the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in West Virginia’s Second District by Rep. Riley Moore! Preethi’s winning project, PreventWildFires, is a web application that uses drones to capture images and process them in real time to identify areas with dry brush—helping prevent potentially devastating wildfires. When asked what inspired her project, Preethi shared, “