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Forbes: Today’s High School Girls Are Tomorrow’s High-Tech Startup Founders & Inventors (Maybe The Next Mark Zuckerberg)

Knewton Blog: NYC Technovation Challenge: Inspiring Girls to Invent, Design, and Build

Getting Smart: Technovation Challenge Launches to Build Women in Technology

Forbes: Technovation Challenge- A Course In Entrepreneurship For High School Girls – And Their Mentors

Women 2.0: Technovation Challenge- A Course In Entrepreneurship For High School Girls – And Their Mentors

BetaBeat: Technovation Challenge is Like a Hyper-Accelerator for High School Girls

SFGate: Immaculate Conception Academy Students Develop Android Apps for Annual Technovation Challenge

International Science Grid This Week: Scientists and High School Girls Collaborate

Forbes: Iridescent Posts Videos Of Women Leaders In Technology Talking Mentorship, Career Advice

Women 2.0: The Giving Season- Stories of Leadership Videos

Girls in Tech: Would You Like to Inspire the Next Generation of Female High-Tech Leaders?

52×52.org: Week 3 featured charity

Huffington Post: Women App Developers and the Mentorship Continuum

Press Democrat: Students missing out on science in Sonoma county, statewide

ONR-funded Smartphone App exceeds 33,000 downloads in First Three Weeks

Girls Who Rock: Erika Allison talking about Iridescent

Public Radio for Southern California: Full STEAM Ahead: Creative Solutions to Classroom Crisis (89.3 KPCC)

Secretary of the Navy, Honorable Ray Mabus talking about Iridescent! See 11:56 and 18:40

Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead talking about Iridescent. See 12:50 onwards.

There is an App for that: ONR Announces Technology Investments and Partnerships at Naval STEM Conference

Bravo TV: Top Chef Masters: “Blinded me with Science” (Season 3, Episode 8 ) (trailer), full episode

Huffington Post: Girl Tech Inventors and Mentors

Hunts Point Express: Science Becomes Fun at Banknote Building

PCWorld: Move over, Dr. Soong: Girls can build Android (Apps) too

Huffington Post: The Beauty and Friendliness of Science

Huffington Post: Girls as Inventors

L.A Times: Nonprofit aims to engage children with science

Education Daily: Engineers empower parents, spark interest in STEM

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: New Science Center for City Kids

Talking Science: Iridescent Science Studio opens in the Bronx

Hunts Point Express: New studio stresses science and math

ONR: Navy Secretary kicks off Iridescent-ONR Science Studio in N.Y

Mashable: Five Organizations Helping Women Get Ahead in Tech

TechCrunch: Technovation Challenge Pitch Night

VidSF: Technovation Challenge

Examiner: Technovation Challenge

Learn and Serve, America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.

USC Engineering Education website: Spring 2009 Engineers as Teachers in three departments

SantaCruz Sentinel: Family Science a hit in Pajaro

USC website: 2008, Engineers as Teachers

USC website: 2007, When Viterbi students and kids come together

USC’s Daily Trojan website: 2006, Hands-on after-school project