Join the Technovation Challenge! In this all-girls mentoring program, you’ll learn programming skills using App Inventor for Android.  You will work with your team to develop a prototype, business plan and marketing scheme for your app.  Each team will have a female high-tech mentor to give you insight into your career opportunities in the industry, and guide you as you develop your project.  The course will culminate in a “Pitch Night” where you’ll pitch your product to industry leaders and venture capitalists to win prizes.  The winning team from National Pitch Night will have their app professionally developed, and distributed on the Google Marketplace!

• Courses are happening in NY, LA, SF, Mountain View, San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley this spring
• Courses run for ten weeks, from February to April
• Teams will visit a high-tech company for instruction once per week in the evenings after school (exact dates and times TBD)
• During the rest of the week, you’ll work with your team after school with the help of a teacher “coach”
• No prior programming experience is expected or required

This is our first year working in the schools, so we are recruiting teachers to participate as “coaches” in the program. If you are interested in helping start a club at your school, please email annalise@iridesentlearning.org. If your school has a program already, your teacher coach will provide you with an application.

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