Deadline: 25-Mar-22
The Technovation Girls is proud to introduce a new Beginner Division, which will be open to girls ages 8-12, and to introduce a new technology option—teams will now have the choice of developing an AI-powered prototype or a mobile app prototype as their submission project.
The Technovation is expanding the Technovation Girls program to include younger learners and to better support parents to participate as mentors. They will no longer be running the Technovation Families program (but the curriculum and design challenges are still available for free).
Technovation Girls students create solutions to community problems using technology.
Benefits
As a student you will:
- Identify a problem that matters to your community
- Build a mobile app or AI prototype that solves the problem, and develop other skills along the way!
- Collaborate with peers and learn from industry mentors
Eligibility Criteria
- Any girl or young woman interested in Technovation Girls is eligible to participate. They welcome all transgender people and also those who identify as non-binary or gender nonconforming and want to be part of a female-identified environment, including student participants.
- A parent/guardian must create an account for the child on the online platform, and then help the child create or join a team. The parent/guardian must sign the consent form.
Criteria
Student Participation criteria:
- All students must be between the ages of 8 to 18 as of August 1, 2022.
- All students must identify as female, trans, nonbinary or gender nonconforming. Students who are assigned male at birth and self-identify as male cannot enter the competition.
- Teams are composed of 1 to 5 students. Students can only join 1 team. There is no limit on the number of mentors per team.
- Competition Divisions are based on the age of the oldest student on the team on August 1, 2022.
- Beginner Division: girls ages 8-12
- Students can participate in Technovation Girls for multiple seasons until they reach the age of 18
- Students can work with the same team members and mentors
- Teams can explore the same problem, but the app or AI prototype must be different or improved each year.
For more information, visit https://technovationchallenge.org/get-started/