The 2012 Technovation pitch season is here!! 520 girls will be sharing their 100+ science education app ideas with a panel of industry experts. Join us for our 2012 Pitch Competitions! Click on the links below for more information.
Check out the action from this season on our Tumblr blog!
Regional Pitch Locations:
• Microsoft in Mountain View, April 28th: Morning & Afternoon
• Twitter in San Francisco, April 28th: Morning & Afternoon
• David Brower Center in Berkeley, April 28th: Morning & Afternoon
• MIT in Boston, April 26th: Evening
• Google in New York, April 25th: Evening
Our National Pitch Night will be held on May 3rd at Intel in Santa Clara, CA.
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| Ben Horowitz, Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz | Dennis Crowley, Co-founder of Foursquare | Adeo Ressi, Founder of TheFunded.com |
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| David Lee, Managing Director of SV Angel | Eva Ho, VP Marketing & Operations at Factual | Dennis Bartels, Executive Director of the Exploratorium |
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| David Helgason, Founder of Unity 3D | David Lieb, Founder of Bump Technologies | Charles Best, Founder of Donors Choose |
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| Gene Alston, VP at Groupon | Angela Benton, Co-founder of NewMe Accelerator | Jessica Steel, VP at Pandora |
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| David Tisch, Managing Director at TechStars | Dimple Sahni, Consultant | Donald Lacey, Director of Citigroup Global Markets Asia |
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| Rachel Weiss, AVP, Digital Strategy, and Interactive Marketing at L’Oreal | Deborah Berebichez, PhD, Quant Risk Consultant & Science Babe | Rob Go, Co-Founder and Partner at NextView Ventures |
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| Jean Hammond, Principal at JHP Associates | Geraldine Alias, Principal at Northbridge Growth Equity | Paul Yarin, Director of Hardware Engineering at Oblong Industries |
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| Katie Huang Shin, Senior Vice President and Partner, Fleishman-Hillard | Aniket Ullal, Founder of First Bridge | Elyse Cherry, CEO of Boston Community Capital |
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| Michelle Snyder, Executive in Residence at InterWest Partners | Yan-David Erlich, Founder & CEO of Happiness Engines | Alan Louie, Partner at ImagineK12 |
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| Wayne Chang, Founder of Crashlytics, Inc | Lorraine Akemann, Co-Founder of Moms With Apps | Julia Hu, CEO and Founder of LARK |
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| Doug Leeds, CEO of Ask.com | Benny Madsen, CEO of LitePoint Corporation | Susan Andrews, Head of Innovation at Citi |
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| Jonathan Carter, Computing Sciences Deputy at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs | Curtiss Pope, Founder/CEO of AisleFinder | Amy Sheng, Co-Founder of CellScope |
The mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship. We aim to inspire girls to see themselves not just as users of technology, but as inventors, designers, builders and entrepreneurs.
In the course, students design a mobile phone app prototype, write a business plan, and “pitch” their plan to a panel of venture capitalists at a high-visibility, “Pitch Competition” event. Winners of each regional Pitch Competition come to the San Francisco Bay Area for a “National Pitch Competition,” where they will compete to have their app professionally developed and distributed on the Android Market. This year’s courses are hosted by Google (in New York, Boston, and Mountain View), Microsoft, LinkedIn, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Adobe and Twitter, serving over 500 girls across the country.
“I’ve learned how to actually make a game that goes on a phone. It’s really interesting to learn how a developer actually programs apps. I’m excited to be behind the scenes as an app maker. Science is my worst subject, but Technovation is fun!” -Donntay, Grade 12
Register for the 2012 Technovation for Teachers Summer Institute
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