Any girl or young woman (ages 10-18) interested in Technovation is eligible to compete, as long as she creates or joins a team on the Technovation online platform, has a signed parental consent form (which includes a photo waiver), and completes a pre-program survey.
About the Program:
Technovation is the world’s largest technology entrepreneurship program for girls aged 10-18. It runs across 100+ countries, supported by Salesforce.org, Google.org, the Adobe Foundation, Uber, Samsung, BNY Mellon as well as UNESCO, the Peace Corps, and UN Women (see report, page 55).
Through Technovation girls work with women mentors, find a problem in their community, develop a mobile app, and launch a startup.
Technovation has been on for 9 years. In that time 23,000 girls around the world have developed mobile apps and startups to solve problems around a diverse range of problems, including food waste, nutrition, women’s safety and much more.
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Eligibility & Age Divisions:
To be eligible to participate in Technovation as a student, you must be between the ages of 10 to 18 as of August 1, 2019, and as female.
To be fully registered, you must form or join a team. Teams can range in size from 1-5 girls. No more than 5 girls are allowed to join a team. You can only join one team.
Your team’s division – Junior or Senior – depends on the age of all team members.
Junior Division: Team members are between 10-14 years old as of August 1, 2019
Senior Division: Team members are between 15-18 years old as of August 1, 2019
The Technovation curriculum is FREE. All you need is up to five middle school or high school girls, a safe place to meet, a laptop with internet. Teams may purchase smartphones to test the apps they create, but this can also be done in a limited way through a web-based phone emulator on App Inventor.
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Application Timeline:
Registration Opens: October 1, 2018
Official Season Launch: January 7, 2019
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2019
Submission Deadline: April 23, 2019
World Pitch: August 2019
How to Apply:
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