“I am most proud of learning how to design an app for the Google Android. I think that is a really interesting and unique skill to have. I also enjoyed learning how to create PowerPoints and improving my public speaking skills.”
“I’m very proud of learning how to use App Inventor, creating a phone application with commercial uses, winning 2nd prize for our idea, working well in our group, and presenting confidently to a group of 3 judges.”
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2013
InformIT: Teaching Girls How to Code through Technovation Challenge
Mercury News: Homestead, Monta Vista students showcase skills in national competitions
MIT App Inventor Blog: East Palo Alto girls create app to clean up graffiti, trash
Wired: Meet the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Huffington Post: Moms Can be CEOs Too
Palo Alto Online: East Palo Alto Girls Create App to Clean Up Graffiti, Trash
Gigaom: Encouraging more girls to code not just a first-world problem for Technovation Challenge
ReadWrite: This Is What The Next Generation Of Programmers Looks Like
Huffington Post: Flip This Conversation: Boys Invent, Girls Follow
STEM Blog: Iridescent’s Technovation World Pitch Night 2013 Encourages Young Girls to Become Leaders in Science and Technology
The Piedmont Highlander: Technovation Girls Work on Android App
NY Tech Women: Girls in IT: Supporting The Future of STEM
All Africa: Nigeria: Women in Tech Opens Mobile APPs Challenge for Girls
Women 2.0: Four Programs Teaching Girls to Code
2012
Financial Times: Technology’s Gender Barrier
P2PU: Teaching girls to be programmers – Technovation Challenge on P2PU
MakerEd: Technovation Challenge: Teaching Girls to Create Phone Apps
LinkedIn & Eric Ries: Tech Entrepreneurship for High School Girls: The Technovation Challenge
MIT App Inventor: Technovation Challenge Winning App, I.O.U, now available on Google Play
The Next Web Insider: Technology in Education: We’re Not There Yet But Companies Can Help
Huffington Post: I imagine. I invent. I engineer.
Slate.com: How to Fix the Gender Gap in Technology
App Inventor Blog: Mr. President: App inventing and what our schools can be
Forbes: From Tickle Me Elmo! With Dad To Building An Android App
Education Week: App Creation Inspires Student Entrepreneurs
Huffington Post: High School Girls Learn to Code and Design Mobile Games for the Technovation Challenge
Women 2.0: High School Girls Learn to Code and Design Mobile Games for the Technovation Challenge
Contra Costa Times: Albany High Girls Claim Technovation Prize
Forbes: Mentorship from Silicon Valley Techies Encourage High School Girls to Dream Bigger
San Jose Mercury News: Girls Pitch Android App Ideas
Huffington Post: Technovation Challenge’s Emilie Robert Wong Encourages Girls To “Hammer Up!”
Oakland Local: Oakland Girls Who Code Win Prizes for Their Hard Work
Albany Patch: Albany Girls Win National Technovation Challenge
San Jose Mercury News: Girl-power Produces New Apps
Berkeleyside: Program trains girls to build phone apps, embrace science
Business Insider: Inspired by Some Teenaged Girl Coders
Women 2.0: Technovation Challenge’s Emilie Robert Wong Encourages Girls To “Hammer Up!”
Forbes: VC Ben Horowitz: “The Future Of Humankind Is Dependent On Technovation Girls”
Bostinno: Community & the Future of Women in Tech
Gnomie: Technovation- Inspiring female high school students to pursue careers in technology
Women 2.0:Mentorship From Silicon Valley Techies Encourages High School Girls To Dream Bigger
Forbes: Today’s High School Girls Are Tomorrow’s High-Tech Startup Founders & Inventors (Maybe The Next Mark Zuckerberg)
Women 2.0: 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
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
Getting Smart: Technovation Challenge Launches to Build Women in Technology
International Science Grid This Week: Scientists and High School Girls Collaborate
2011
Forbes: Iridescent Posts Videos Of Women Leaders In Technology Talking Mentorship, Career Advice
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
jamesedtech: Technovation Challenge National Pitch Night
Official Google Blog: Future female engineers come together in the Technovation Challenge
i am a scholar: Teaching Assistant Scholars WIN Technovation Challenge!
Bradenton.com:Iridescent Announces Technovation Challenge “Pitch Nights”
Future Gov: In NYC, High School Girls Create Android Apps
Girls in Tech: Just How Powerful is a Tweet?
Echo User: Technovation Challenge Mentorship Program
PC World: Move Over, Dr. Soong: Girls Can Build Android (Apps) Too
Huffington Post: Girls as Inventors
2010
TechCrunch: Fixing Silicon Valley’s Gender Gap One Pitch At A Time
VdSF: Technovation Challenge
Examiner: Technovation Challenge
