Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly “This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like” series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Los Angeles-based angel investor Eva Ho is currently a VP of Marketing and Operations at Factual. A tech founder herself, she co-founded Navigating Cancer in 2008 to empower cancer [...]
Posts Tagged "Iridescent"
4 Programs Teaching Girls How To Code
January 2, 2013 – 6:00 am
Girls need to be encouraged to pursue STEM in the classroom, not just in extracurricular activities. But these programs are a start. By Ariel Schwartz (Senior Editor, FastCompany’s Co.Exist) 10 years ago – even five years ago – it was incredibly difficult for tech-minded girls going through the K-12 school system to find instruction tailored [...]
(Video) 60 Seconds Of Inspiration In Technovation Challenge PSA
November 30, 2012 – 10:00 am
We have teams of girls from Alaska to Yemen signing up to learn to code apps and launch companies – and they need mentors! By Dara Olmsted (Director of Development, Iridescent) Technovation Challenge, a 12-week program that teaches high school girls to create phone apps and start businesses, just released an inspiring, short public service [...]
Mentor A Teenage Girl At Technovation And Give Back!
October 10, 2012 – 9:00 am
When you were a teenager, did you have a female mentor or role model who showed you that girls can grow up to be programmers, entrepreneurs, and leaders? By Dara Olmsted (Director of Development, Iridescent) Help the next generation of girls learn to code and start companies – sign up to be a Technovation Challenge [...]
High School Girls Learn To Code And Design Mobile Games
June 9, 2012 – 9:00 am
Iridescent’s program gives high school girls the skills and confidence needed to succeed in computer science and entrepreneurship. By Karen Holst (Co-Founder, Pick-A-Prof & VP Institutional Development, MyEdu) While volunteering with Iridescent’s Technovation Challenge, I would often come home from mentoring the group of teenage girls with a smile on my face and a fist [...]
Today’s High School Girls Are Tomorrow’s Mobile App Inventors
April 26, 2012 – 2:13 pm
Watch the top 11 teams of high school girls pitch their Android apps and business plans to investors on May 3 in Santa Clara at the Technovation Challenge National Pitch Night. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) What would the next generation of high school girls build if given the chance to build [...]
Technovation Challenge A Course In Entrepreneurship For High School Girls – And Their Mentors
March 30, 2012 – 11:00 am
Words of wisdom from Technovation Challenge speakers, and invitation to Pitch Events. By Jeri Countryman (Director of Curriculum & Assessment, Iridescent) The Technovation Challenge is a program to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship by developing a mobile phone app [...]
Femgineer Celebrates 5 Years Of Blogging Changes, Starting Up
March 18, 2012 – 6:00 am
A femgineer discusses the Silicon Valley and women in engineering. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) It’s been five years since I started blogging at Femgineer. I can vividly remember the process I went through when I was deciding on a name for the blog, I wanted something that would capture being feminine and [...]
Would You Like To Mentor And Inspire A Team Of High School Girls?
December 20, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Jennifer Arguello (Product Manager, Mozilla & Mentor, Technovation Challenge) Are your successes in life due to other people helping you? Do you wish you had more role models growing up to show you what you know now? Would you like to inspire the next generation of female high-tech leaders? If you answered yes to [...]
The Giving Season: Stories Of Leadership, Mentorship (Videos)
December 16, 2011 – 1:00 pm
By Dara Olmsted (Grant Writer & Ethnographer, Iridescent) Did you miss the Technovation Challenge’s Women in Leadership panel at Andreessen Horowitz last month? The science education non-profit that runs the Technovation Challenge, Iridescent, teaches high school girls how to design a mobile phone app prototype, write a business plan, and pitch their plan to a [...]
