alice-teacher Fwd: Inspire Your Students to Be Technology Entrepreneurs - Program Starts February 3rd

[Don Slater]

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> From: Chris Stephenson <cstephenson at HQ.ACM.ORG>
> Subject: Inspire Your Students to Be Technology Entrepreneurs - Program Starts February 3rd
> Date: January 16, 2014 at 5:04:36 PM EST
> To: csta-announcements at CSTA.ACM.ORG
> Reply-To: samantha at IRIDESCENTLEARNING.ORG
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> CSTA ANNOUNCEMENTS LISTSERV
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> 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.
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> 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, 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 Computer Science in College.
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> 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:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeOIchChpY
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> 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!
> Sign up to get started at:

> http://technovationchallenge.org
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> Questions?
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> Contact Samantha Quist at samantha at iridescentlearning.org
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