| Bay Area Spring 2010 Program |
The Technovation Challenge:
The San Francisco Bay Area program, the Technovation Challenge, ran from February 23, 2010 to April 22, 2010. The Technovation Challenge afterschool program is an eight-week long program that brings together teams of highschoolers and pairs them with mentors who are female professionals in technology. The students and mentors work together in teams to learn programming using App Inventor for Android (TM), a new language developed by Google. Each team creates a mobile app and writes a business plan for their app. Concepts in entrepreneurship are explored through lectures and hands-on exercises on topics such as product and UI design, marketing, finance, and presentation and public speaking. The program culminates in a "Pitch Night" during which students demo their apps and present their business plans to VCs and get feedback and win prizes. In the summer, we will launch the Technovation Internship program to support our program goals of giving young women increased opportunities to become comfortable with entrepreneurship and technology. Our Spring, 2010 Program was a huge success! Congratulations to all the teams that participated!
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