Mentors
Mentor the next generation of changemakers
Help youth tap into their innovation, bravery, and power
As a Mentor, you’ll support a team of students for a full Technovation Challenge season. This means you’ll work closely with a group of students as they build a tech-based solution to a community problem. You’ll guide them every step of the way, from brainstorming potential solutions to pitching their final project!
You’ll help your team:
- Stay on track and manage their time to meet deadlines
- Stay energized and motivated to complete their project
- Find answers to questions or overcome challenges and set-backs
- Access additional resources and subject matter experts, if possible
* You don’t have to mentor alone! You can co-mentor with a friend or colleague to share the work or leverage your individual skills and strengths.
Mentor registration is closed.
Sign up to get an email notification when it opens for the 2026-2027 season.
TIME COMMITMENT: 30-40 hours in total:
1-2 hours for onboarding + 2-4 hours a week working with a team
between October and April
Who Can be a Technovation Mentor?
Mentors can be:
- teachers
- parents / guardians
- after school coordinators
- tech industry professionals
- educators
- postsecondary students
You do not need to have a technical background to be a Mentor, but you should have a willingness to learn from and alongside your team
Your job as a Mentor is to be a positive and supportive force for your team, someone who can help them learn how to overcome challenges and setbacks, technical and otherwise…not to teach students how to code (the curriculum guides them through that!)
Mentors can find a team to work with on our platform, or work with a team in a local program, if available.
Note: Mentors must complete a background check as part of their onboarding process.
Why You Should Mentor
If you’ve read this far, it’s clear you really care about things like education, your community, and the future. Volunteering as a Mentor means you get to actively support all of those things.
You’ll also meet incredible, passionate youth with big ideas for ways to help their communities—you’ll get to help them step into their power so they can actually do it.
And volunteering as a Mentor boosts your skills too:
79%
of industry professionals said their experience increased their job satisfaction
75%
of mentors said their communication and presentation skills improved after participating
74%
of mentors said their leadership skills improved after participating
Technovation Mentor Impact
have supported more than
We are proud to work with Mentors from companies that include:
Yandex
Inditex
Santander
EY (Ernst & Young)
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
IBM
U. Carlos III de Madrid
U. Técnica Federico Santa María
Universidad de Valparaíso
Inacap
Safaricom
Universidad de Guadalajara
NTT DATA
U. Católica del Norte
Verisure / Securitas Direct
BBVA
Impact Hub
Babeș-Bolyai University
U. Federal de Viçosa
Adobe
Universidad de Tarapacá
Instituto Paramitas
IkamvaYouth
Salesforce
Globant
CUCEI
U. de Santiago de Chile
The companies listed here had 15 or more employees actively engaged as volunteer mentors in our most recent program season.
Mentors are
foundational
to girls’ success
Over
90%
of teams who complete the program have Mentors
MENTORS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Mentor registration is closed.
Sign up to get an email notification when it opens for the 2026-2027 season.
Is mentoring too large of a commitment?
That’s okay! There are plenty of other ways to support girls’ education and empowerment. Learn more about being a Judge, or consider donating to Technovation so we can reach more girls in more places.