Blair Senior Wins Congressional App Challenge
A Montgomery Blair senior won U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin’s 2020 Congressional App Challenge. Kevin Xu, along with teammate Leon Si, a junior at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Canada, created a free virtual whiteboard app that is designed to improve virtual learning for teachers and students.
The teenagers designed Tabulo, which connects a mobile device to a computer and turns it into a drawing pad that enables users to draw or write on their phones. Their designs and writings are synced to the computer in real-time.
The students saw the need for teachers to use a whiteboard like they do in the physical classrooms. Without Tabulo, they have to use a computer mouse, which is limiting, according to the students.