Last week, I enjoyed attending the Technovation World Pitch Summit 2016 hosted by the University of San Francisco. Technovation was the single most popular formal mentoring program mentioned by the Mentoring Standard Certified Mentors (see the “First Mentors – What We Learned” report), so I have heard about its excellence from many sources. Technovation was founded in 2009 to offer girls the opportunity to learn how to start a company and become high-tech entrepreneurs. It is now a global competition reaching thousands of girls. This year’s winners were:
- First Place, High School: Team A, “OOL” from Mexico
- First Place, Middle School: California Coders, “Loc8Don8” from the United States
The pitch videos from all of the finalists are well worth watching. In addition to the awards given to the girls’ teams, TechWomen‘s own Dr. Amel Gouila (Bioinformatician at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis) from Tunisia was honored as The Technovation Regional Ambassador of the year. In advance of the awards, there were inspiring speeches by:
- Andy Cunningham – (who said she was fired 5 times by Steve Jobs at Apple, NeXT, and Pixar), Founder and President, Cunningham Collective
- Debbie Sterling, Founder & CEO, GoldieBlox
- Tara Chklovski, CEO Iridescent
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