What’s going to happen if software eats the world and all the programmers are boys? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz talks about the importance of women in technology during a Technovation Challenge pitch event, the culminating National Technovation Pitch Night happening this Thursday night in Santa Clara. The [...]
Posts Tagged "Technovation Challenge"
VC Ben Horowitz: “The Future Of Humankind Is Dependent On Technovation Girls” (The Girl Effect)
May 2, 2012 – 10:34 am
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 [...]
In A Room Of 25 Engineers, Only 3 Will Be Women. Let’s Change This.
April 3, 2012 – 11:00 am
20% of women with math and science degrees work in a related field. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Girls are smarter than boys, the infographic below states. Studies show that at an early age, girls are smarter than boys. But girls question their ability, losing confidence and self-esteem from elementary years to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Stories of Leadership” Free Event on November 2 in Menlo Park
October 30, 2011 – 4:23 pm
By Tara Chklovski (Founder & CEO, Iridescent) The Technovation Challenge is a technology and entrepreneurship program for high school girls, founded by Dr. Anuranjita Tewary (Sr. Data Scientist, Linkedin) and implemented by Iridescent, a national, science-education nonprofit. Over the course of ten weeks, girls work with professional women in technology to develop mobile phone apps. [...]
