Team

Medha Gupta is the founder, host, and producer of the Congressional App Challenge Debugged Podcast. After founding the podcast in 2021, Medha has interviewed guests such as CEOs, NYT Best Selling Authors, Forbes 30 Under 30, and more. Medha currently works full-time at Adobe in the Digital Strategy Group, an in-house product strategy & management consulting team that works with C-suite leadership of Fortune 500 companies. At Adobe, she is the generative AI in healthcare marketing technology subject matter expert, founded and organizes Adobe NY SEP - a pilot peer skills exchange program for the New York sites attended by >200 Adobe employees, and co-founded the Welcome Ambassador Committee for the New York sites. Medha serves as a Chair on the Congressional App Challenge Alumni Advisory Board where she organizes events & conferences such as National App Challenge Day and #HouseOfCode. She also volunteers with Girls in Technology to teach computer science education and co-hosts & produces Saree Not Sorry, a South Asian American podcast. Medha has been personally recognized by Vice President Kamala Harris, the Washington Post, Congresswoman Comstock, Reinvented Magazine, Girls Who Code, NDTV, the CSTA as a 2022 CS Hero, and more.

Aarav Kansupada is a rising high school senior from Dallas, Texas. He won the 2023 Congressional App Challenge in TX-30 for his app OurGarden and subsequently joined the Debugged team. Outside of Debugged, Aarav enjoys being a part of his school’s FTC robotics team, working on personal projects, and giving back to the community through volunteering. In his free time, Aarav enjoys watching Formula 1, playing board games like Risk, and messing around with his computer.

Tushar Mehta is a part of the Class of 2026 at Parkland High School, PA, and serves as the Director of the Experience Design Team for the Debugged Podcast. In 2022, he won the Congressional App Challenge for his app, RecycleBot. Tushar is very active in robotics and leads the FIRST FTC Robotics team. He plans to major in Engineering or Computer Science and enjoys playing video games, basketball, and traveling in his free time.

Aadithyaa is currently pursuing a Pre-Health major at the University of Florida. He has been producing music for 5 years, with a total of 200,000 streams. He is currently pursuing his interest in music further as an audio engineer for the Congressional App Challenge Debugged Podcast.

Suri is a current high school sophomore who has interest in connecting STEM with other fields and seeing its implications in the real world. Outside of managing all social media aspects of the Debugged Podcast, she is part of her school’s robotics teams, runs a Girls Who Code club, and works on her own personal projects. In her free time, she enjoys thrifting, playing Roblox, and going to the beach with her friends.

William is a high school junior interested in the fields of computer science and engineering. In his free time, he enjoys participating on his school’s robotics team, going for walks, or diving down rabbit holes on the internet

Derek is an incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as the Director of Video Engineering for the Debugged podcast. He is deeply interested in math and computer science and hopes to further pursue these complementary interests in his academic and professional career.

Suhaani Sodhi is part of the Class of 2025 at BASIS Oro Valley in Arizona and Director of Experience Manager for the Debugged podcast. After winning the Congressional App Challenge in 2022 for her app No Narcotics, in her community she has started a programming club in her school along with a Route4Success Chapter to aid underrepresented groups to join STEM. She hopes to major in Engineering and in her free time loves knitting, watching movies, and traveling.

Teddy Lampert is a sophomore in high school and a Director of Content Development for the Debugged podcast. After winning the Congressional App Challenge in 2022, he was inspired to come back as an alumni to work on a podcast that does the important job of connecting all youth with the world of STEM. When not working on the podcast, he is a member of his school’s FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics team, a co-head of Tech Club, and a Web Editor for his school newspaper. In his free time, he enjoys playing golf and making apps.