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This professional development course pools resources on topics such as building your personal brand, running a team, and managing projects for mentors and teachers participating in Technovation Challenge.
Welcome to Technovation Challenge!
This course is a space for mentors and teachers everywhere to chat about their professional challenges, and to share experiences and best practices for working with your teams of Technovation girls. As part of the course, we included places where you can connect and post events and meetings ("meetups") in your area. You can also arrange virtual meetings ("hangouts") to connect with mentors and teachers from around the world.
We have included resources to help guide your personal development. These resources are optional and can be used to start conversations on P2PU, virtual hangouts, or meetups. They may also be helpful during your mentoring experience. Please share your own resources such as links to videos and articles. We will be adding a section for Technovation-specific tips and strategies.
Special thanks to the volunteer NYC-based professional women's group So What's On Your Plate for putting together the resources for this course.
“So What’s On Your Plate” (SWOYP) is a global community that focuses on bringing a diverse group of ambitious women together to foster friendships, build skills relevant to their lifestyles, and give them an avenue to make an impact in their local communities.
You can connect with SWOYP on Facebook and Twitter.
Introduce yourself to other mentors and teachers by adding a comment to this task.
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Mentor(s) Needed!
We're looking for a volunteer (or two) to do a short workshop on App Inventor at a school in Lafayette (Bentley High). If interested email annalise@iridescentlearning.org.
Thanks!
AnnaLise
Hi,
My name is Eshika I am doing this technovation club with girls in Grover Cleavland high school. I am very new to this and have very little experince so if you guys can help me out I would really appreciate it.
Thank you
Eshika
Hi Eshika!
We are excited to have you participate. Are you in Ridgewood, NYC? Please email me so I can connect with you directly - angelica (at) iridescentlearning (dot) org.
Best,
Angélica
Hi Eshika
I just emailed you more information. It's not too late to sign up.
Thanks,
Angélica
Attention Mentors in MA!
There are teams in the Boylston area that need a mentor! Do you know a poential in the area? Please share infromation with them and encourage them to register, or just put them in touch with me Tahani@iridescentlearning.org
Thank you!
Tahani
Hi all,
I'm Sowhir Alfaqee , Computer engineer from Yemen .
It's so nice to be one of Technovation Challenge mentors , I'm so glad to help the girls.
Thanks and good luck,
Sowhir
Hey all !
I'm Rahaf Maraghi ! i work as a software engineer at Bayt.com -Jordan.
I'm mentoring the most amazing girls ! our team called the "Appers" !
So glade to be part of this challenge , it will be a great experience to learn from.
Good luck for all teams ! :D
Salam Rahaf,
Welcome to Technovation! I saw your team submitted requests for badges today, they're doing so great! Just so you know, you can actually award badges to your teams too :) So you can give it to them immediately.
I'm excited to hear more about them! Keep us posted :D
Tahani
Hello everyone!
I'm Mona Eilouti from Jordan | Software Engineer in Bayt.com
I'm the mentor of 4 inovative girls from AlAhliyah School. We haven't chosen a name for the team yet!
I'm very excited about this technovation experience! Wish all groups best of luck :)
Salam Mona,
Great to hear about your team! I'm sure they'll pick a name soon :) Best of luck!
Tahani
My name is Kate Kinnear. I am a mentor at the Bicentennial School in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. We have two teams of five girls each at this school.
Hello,
My name is Dareen Alhiyari and I'm the regional coordinator of Technovation Challenge in Jordan.
I'm a senior software engineer at Softact, a local Microsoft partner, I've been working in technology for about 7 years now.
We had our HackDay last Saturday and we took a lot of nice photos, I'm wondering where to upload/send the photos?
We have 6 teams and 7 mentors, we're all excited about Technovation Challenge and can't wait to see what the girls will come up with :D
Hi Dareen!
How exciting. So great to hear that you had a successful Hack Day! Thank you for putting it together : )
You can send the photos directly to me if you would like at Jenna@IridescentLearning.org and I can put together a picasa album. That way we can share all of the great work that the girls have done. If the files are too big we can figure something out over e-mail.
Thanks!
Jenna
Great, I sent you an email with the Google Drive folder link that contains the photos.
Thanks :)
hello girls,
its rema malkawi from jordan , with 2 years experiance in sharepoint development at STS jordan.
its nice to be one of this Community , being Technovation mentor is a very intersting and nice thing. i am a mentor for the "challenger" team that contains 5 innovative girls.
hops that we can share our knowledge and experiance here.
please feel free to contact me if you need help :)
Hi all,
I'm Alia Shaheen from Jordan, a Junior Java Developer, I'm the mentor of the "Chalenger" team form Al-Ahliyyah School for girls.
I joined Technovation so I can help the girls, have new experiance and fun as well
Hi everyone,
This Banan Abu Shawareb, I'm the "4th apple" group mentor from Jordan - Middle East, I'm the co-founder of Hand's talk art exhition, very much into technology and women improvement, very excited about this program, looking forward to hear from each one of you and exchange our experienes, limitless!
wishing you all a very good luck :)
Banan
Salam Banan!
We're excited that you're joining us in Technovation and to see what your team comes up with :D
Tahani
I am Nour Alkhalil From Jordan, i am Senior Software Engineer, been in IT field since 3 years now, interested in learning and teaching others , i am mentoring a group of girls aged 15-17 called "Beyond Borders"
Hi Nour ,I 'm so glad to see a Techwomen here !.We also running the program in Yemen ,we started with 4 teams..
I'm sure you will have a lot of fun in Technovation experiance.
Good luck for " beyond borders " :)
Nada
Hi Nour,
Welcome to Technovation! What a creative name for the group :) Looking forward to see what you ladies come up with.
Tahani
Hi,
My name is Shali and I am a master student of Computer Science in Dalhousie University. I became volunteer in this program through Girls Tech League. Currently I am helping girls from Bicentennial Junior High School in Halifax. We have two teams in that school. I haven't been to the other two schools in Halifax, so I am not sure about how many teams here we have in Halifax.
I really enjoy this opportunity to get closer to girls from high school and love their creativity. Hope they will enjoy the whole program and competition.
We are looking for one more mentor for Piedmont High School in Oakland.They meet on Fridays. Anyone available/interested?
Julia Morgan School for Girls-- Looking for Women Engineers for "Engineering Day" Panel on 2/21/13
...is anyone interested/available? Will post more details as soon as I have them.
The panel is from 8:15-9:00 AM and then there are engineering activities throughout the day if you want to stay and volunteer. Julia Morgan School for Girls is located on Mills College campus in Oakland, CA. Email me if you're interested! annalise@iridescentlearning.org.
Hi Everybody!
I'm Tanner, instructor & curriculum designer @ Dev Bootcamp. I'm currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
I am hoping to assist teams with technical and user experience issues by hosting occassional open office hours.
Looking forward to working with this initiative!
Hi Tanner,
Welcome and thanks for helping out! You can also keep an eye on our App Inventor Help Forum where people ask for help with technical issues :)
Tahani
Thanks, Tahani. I'll take a look over there and see if there are any questions I can answer.
NY is great! I love it out here. Excited to see how I can contribute here.
Check out our latest Mentor Spotlights!
Last week we featured Cassandra Valencia-O'Shea (in Boston) and this week we featured Katherine Corner, an SF mentor. Check out our Tumblr page to see their stories and more!
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Hi all,
One of our parents let me know about a cool event happening this Thursday that you and your students might be interested in. It's called The AppShow. From their website:
"Each month we bring together 10 App developers to demo their newsworthy new apps and unrecognized app gems to a live audience with an exciting social backdrop. The events are also streamed live on the web via Ustream.tv."
Learn more and watch the app show live streaming here: http://sfappshow.com/
I hope some of you and your students will check it out!
AnnaLise
Hi there!
My name is Cassandra and I am a sophmore at Stonehill College studying computer science. This is my first year as a mentor and I am excited to be working with the girls from Needham High School. Also, I participated in the Technovation Challenge when I was a senior in high school. I look forward to share my experience with the girls and help them through their own experience during the challenge.
Welcome Cassandra! It's so cool to have a Technovation alum mentor teams through the same experience! We're excited you're joining us :)
Hi There!
My name is Katrina and I'm one of the Managing Director's for Girls in Tech- Los Angeles! I'm so excited to be a mentor throughout the Technovation Challenge. I look forward to learning as much as possible as I work with our amazing team to help the girls.
Cheers,
Katrina
