Technovation Challenge Fall 2012

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Tech Company Field Trip


Attend a field trip with your team to a local technology company. You will learn about what happens inside of a tech company through hands-on activities, meet the company’s top women executives, and mingle with other girls participating in Technovation from nearby schools.

Mentors can arrange a field trip at their own company or find another suitable venue. Teachers can also help to arrange field trips. Combine your efforts by reaching out to other teams in your region -- send them a message on P2PU or add a comment below. 

Field trips are best when they are full-day experiences that occur during a week day. At least one teacher or other adult must be present to chaperone students during the field trip. 

Planning a field trip? Check out our Field Trip Guidelines.

Please post comments about field trips below.

Virtual Field Trips:

Teams without access to nearby technology companies can check out our "virtual field trips" below or coordinate a virtual field trip with a remote mentor using Skype or G+ videoconferencing.

Iridescent/Technovation Videos

Our field trip series is a part of the curriculum that showcases female executives and engineers from tech companies talking about their careers and the big problems they solve. The entire playlist can be viewed here.
 
What is it like to work at Factual: Eva Ho (7:33)
 
What is it like to work at Factual: Shabnam Shademan (4:32)
 
What is it like to work at Twitter: Sara Haider and Dana Contreras (7:10)
 
What is it like to work at Facebook: Ming Hua (4:22)
 
What is it like to work at Google: Shubhie Panicker (4:39)
 
What is it like to work at Airbnb: Tanya Breshears, Jessica Long, Alanna Scott, Mona Gandhi, Amy Wibowo, Bekki Jam (8:42)
 
What is it like to work at 500 Startups: Christine Tsai (5:14)
 
What is it like to work at Skype: Yanina Potashnik and Lilian Rincon (5:33)
 
What is it like to work at Linkedin: Florina Xhabija and Kamilah Taylor (5:37)
 
What is it like to work at Palantir: Jen Leung, Helen Fu, and Elizabeth Caudill (6:14)
 
What is it like to be a computer scientist researcher: Yolanda Gil (4:58)
 
Videos from the Web
 
Google
 
Girls in a Tech World: Endless Possibilities of Computer Science (2:40)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBPotROKC8

Working at Google Zurich – Lina: Software Engineer – (:49)

http://youtu.be/JLiNjG2cMJw

An Inside Look at Google – Working at Google – (2:17)

http://youtu.be/aOZhbOhEunY

Pixar

A Rare Look Inside Pixar Studios (6:08)

Microsoft

Microsoft Campus Tours - Xbox HQ (8:20)

http://youtu.be/LvTDgKIPHzI

Day in the life of a Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft Ireland (2:40)

http://youtu.be/pH-a9j0UXfM

Women in IT: Juliana Gomez on life and career at Microsoft (5:07)

http://youtu.be/yOEcataZ4fg

Microsoft Research – Women in Computer Science: Jasmin Fisher – (4:31)

http://youtu.be/PQup4eCVt_c

Rockwell Collins

Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (4:21)

http://youtu.be/2AnVUaiEnZk

NASA

Aspire to Inspire: Women in STEM (6:50)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyEWbWRu5M&feature=relmfu

Goldman Sachs

Our Divisions - Technology (3:25)

Startup - Adafruit

Meet Limor "ladyada" Fried at Adafruit Industries! (2:50)

http://youtu.be/SpYMgScKRwk

Startup - Fourquare

Dorm Room Innovators: Dennis Crowley of Foursquare (3:07)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bB2hwxmpQ

Startup - Backblaze

Startup Sessions – An inside look at Backblaze – (9:10)

http://youtu.be/g4usvYLEXa0

Search and recommend videos of companies near you in the comments, for example, here is an article and video for Brazil.

Task Discussion


  • Eshika Kalam said:

    Hi 

    Is completing the hack apps mandotory or it is just a process to get the girls familier to the program?

    on March 25, 2013, 1:36 p.m.

    Angelica said:

    The tutorials are optional; they help the students learn how to use App Inventor.

    on March 25, 2013, 1:38 p.m. in reply to Eshika Kalam

  • TahaniZ said:

    Hi everyone, my name is Tahani and I'm excited to meet and work with you all. I want to share about our field trip that we had last week. One of our mentors (thank you Trish!) was gracious enough to host a field trip for the Technovation girls at MassChallenge last week. They got a quick tour of the space and we shared a bit more about Technovation Challeneg. They even had a chance to play with the past winning apps that have been released. We had a panel of 3 young women CEOs come and talk about their companies. The panel was pretty casual and the women took turns sharing from their experiences and the girls loved them! They especially liked hearing about their personal lives and  hobies, and about their strategies of dealing with challenges and stress. Several girls went up to their teachers afterwards and asked them if they can still sign up, and I had a girls tell me that although she was undecided at first, the field trip assured her that she wanted to join Technovation! It was a success and a lot of fun as well smiley

    Please share any successes or challenges you are having with field trips!

    on Oct. 29, 2012, 12:27 p.m.

  • TahaniZ said:

    Hi everyone, my name is Tahani and I'm excited to meet and work with you all. I want to share about our field trip that we had last week. One of our mentors (thank you Trish!) was gracious enough to host a field trip for the Technovation girls at MassChallenge last week. They got a quick tour of the space and we shared a bit more about Technovation Challeneg. They even had a chance to play with the past winning apps that have been released. We had a panel of 3 young women CEOs come and talk about their companies. The panel was pretty casual and the women took turns sharing from their experiences and the girls loved them! They especially liked hearing about their personal lives and  hobies, and about their strategies of dealing with challenges and stress. Several girls went up to their teachers afterwards and asked them if they can still sign up, and I had a girls tell me that although she was undecided at first, the field trip assured her that she wanted to join Technovation! It was a success and a lot of fun as well smiley

    Please share any successes or challenges you are having with field trips!

    on Oct. 29, 2012, 12:25 p.m.