<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Chris Stephenson <<a href="mailto:cstephenson@HQ.ACM.ORG">cstephenson@HQ.ACM.ORG</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Inspire Your Students to Be Technology Entrepreneurs - Program Starts February 3rd</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">January 16, 2014 at 5:04:36 PM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:csta-announcements@CSTA.ACM.ORG">csta-announcements@CSTA.ACM.ORG</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:samantha@IRIDESCENTLEARNING.ORG">samantha@IRIDESCENTLEARNING.ORG</a><br></span></div><br><div><div tabindex="0" aria-label="Message body" fpstyle="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font color="blue" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">CSTA ANNOUNCEMENTS LISTSERV</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><br></font><div id="Item.MessageUniqueBody" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman"><b id="docs-internal-guid-64e2f03a-9d12-c57e-4500-248ec78dac6e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
Technovation is the global technology entrepreneurship program for girls, with over 1,300 alumnae from 19 countries. Middle school, high school, and university students research, design, build, and launch a mobile app prototype over 3 months, with guidance from dedicated teachers and female mentors who are professionals in STEM and business careers. No prior app development experience is necessary.<br>
</span></b></font><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><b id="docs-internal-guid-64e2f03a-9d12-5ade-98c2-33fea01346dc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kelly Powers, CSTA member since 2005 and Massachusetts STEM Teacher of the Year, has led her students to complete Technovation twice. Although her students were already taking computer science courses as part of their regular school curriculum, she says that participating in Technovation, </span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-64e2f03a-9d12-039f-e57c-02bc54ef1ac6" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">transformed her student's view of STEM careers, increased their self confidence, business, collaboration and programming skills, and was what ultimately inspired them to go on to major in Compu</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">ter Science in College.<br>
</font></span></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-64e2f03a-9d13-36bb-bfa8-996808ba7bea" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forty-three students have gone on from Technovation to accept internships with technology companies, and 75% of alumnae said they could see themselves in a technology/STEM career after they finished the program. Watch interviews with Technovation alumnae here:
</span><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeOIchChpY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeOIchChpY</a><br><br></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-64e2f03a-9d14-0db4-2a39-006a5bacd58c" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2014 program begins during the week of February 3rd. The final registration deadline is March 1st. App submissions are due on April 26th. The time commitment is about 60 hours over 12 weeks and the program is completely free. We hope to have more CSTA teachers and your students to join us this year!</span><img height="8px;" width="20px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HicaIm3Lt6xf1hItq7IK0r54R9SQ8YzjUi6EzTLSEeFhHa7kHQqgzU-fTf5HGZFbkygKqnTnSdXSH8bxTzjcJiiQSGrpG-PjCd6kRyqffOqt_j5kK_YxtqiTpg" style="border: 0px solid transparent;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sign up to get started at:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div></b></div></span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div tabindex="0" aria-label="Message body" fpstyle="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div id="Item.MessageUniqueBody" style="background-color: white; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-64e2f03a-9d14-0db4-2a39-006a5bacd58c" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://technovationchallenge.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://technovationchallenge.org</a></span></div><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact Samantha Quist at <a href="mailto:samantha@iridescentlearning.org">samantha@iridescentlearning.org</a></span></div></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></font></div></span></font></div><br><hr><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">To unsubscribe from the csta-announcements list, click the following link:<br><a href="http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa-ACMLPX.exe?SUBED1=csta-announcements&A=1" target="_blank">http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa-ACMLPX.exe?SUBED1=csta-announcements&A=1</a></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>