A Bay area teenager girl Jasmine Steele, won a congressional contest for creating an app named 'Allergy Blast' allowing users to quickly send allergy information to health care providers.

The San Ramon Valley High School school beat out other contestants from the Bay Area for the 2016 Congressional App Challenge. The contest is aimed at encouraging young people to learn how to code.

The 16-year-old Jasmine said that, "I really am proud to have won."  "I guess I made the app because I thought it was a good thing to do." Jasmine suffers from a severe nut allergy.

The app, Allergy Blast is expected to be helpful for children, seniors or people with special needs share critical health and allergy information.

Jasmine explained, "Whenever I would be under someone else's care, my mom would type off this long list of allergy information." "It worked, but it was a big hassle. So, instead of making a paper that they have to print out, they can just create a profile once, save it and resend it anytime."

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier said that, "It's just a wonderful combination of using a technology for a practical application that I could really relate to," he said.

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