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Global Technovation Challenge

Technovation is a 3-month program where teams of young women work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps, then pitch their “startup” businesses to investors.

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Project Impact(s): Children & Youth, Computer Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Mentoring, OpenBeam, STEM

This project is in Available Phase.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 


Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Rochester Area Math and Science Partnership

Contact: Emily Benner ; Email: ebenner@preventice.com ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Diversity Council ; OpenBeam ; STEM Forward

Potential Collaborators: Children's Dental Health Services ; Rochester Public Schools


Related Projects

Bounce Day (Community Resilience) ; Community Dashboard ; Minnesota Cup ; P-TECH 535 ; RISE for Youth


Impacts 

Major Impact:  STEM

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Children & Youth, Computer Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Mentoring, OpenBeam, STEM

Level 2: Women, C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation, Computer Literacy

DMC Impacts:

Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:


Type of Project

Programming  

 


 

 

 

Expected Results

Technovation has been inspiring and educating girls and women to solve problems using Technovation for the past 5 years, so we’ve been able to collect a lot of data. Most girls have never started anything or taken a Computer Science class before Technovation, but many were transformed after the program.

  • 70% of alumnae were more interested in entrepreneurship after Technovation than before
  • 70% of alumnae took further Computer Science courses after Technovation when given an opportunity
  • 94% of alumnae believe that tech careers are good for women
  • 44% of college-age alumnae who had already selected a major chose Computer Science vs .4% of college women overall (according to AAUW.org) based on preliminary alumnae survey data; we’re following up with a second survey to check these astounding results

 

 

Metrics

Technovation has been inspiring and educating girls and women to solve problems using Technovation for the past 5 years, so we’ve been able to collect a lot of data. Most girls have never started anything or taken a Computer Science class before Technovation, but many were transformed after the program.

  • 70% of alumnae were more interested in entrepreneurship after Technovation than before
  • 70% of alumnae took further Computer Science courses after Technovation when given an opportunity
  • 94% of alumnae believe that tech careers are good for women
  • 44% of college-age alumnae who had already selected a major chose Computer Science vs .4% of college women overall (according to AAUW.org) based on preliminary alumnae survey data; we’re following up with a second survey to check these astounding results

 

 

Last modified by support on 2022/03/18
Created by support on 2014/12/04

 

 

 

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