Coaches: What is Technovation?

Welcome to the Technovation Program Overview!

In this module, we’ll review the program’s objectives, structure, and key components. Understanding these elements will enable you to effectively support student teams and understand the role you play in empowering them in their learning journey.

MISSION POSSIBLE: Empower 25 Million Female Future-Shapers

We empower girls to become leaders, technology innovators and real-world problem solvers around the world.

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The world misses out on powerful solutions when half the population is left out of the conversation.

Technovation is changing that by empowering 25 million girls with AI, tech and entrepreneurship skills to solve real problems and shape the future.

What do girls do in this program?

Girls ages 8–18 work with Mentors to create technology-based solutions and businesses that tackle real challenges in their communities by doing the following:

  • Identify a problem in their local or global community

  • Design a mobile or web app to address a community problem

  • Code the app

  • Create a business idea around the app

  • Record a pitch video and technical video to showcase their ideas

  • Submit their project to Technovation's global competition

Our Age Divisions

 Participants compete in one of three age divisions – Beginner, Junior and Senior Divisions. Hover over each card below to see more info about each division.

Beginner Division

Ages 8–12

What They Build:

Beginner Curriculum
Beginner Rubric
Junior Division

Ages 13–15

What They Build:

Junior Curriculum
Junior Rubric
Senior Division

Ages 16–18

What They Build:

Senior Curriculum
Senior Rubric

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

FORM TEAMS

Students form teams of 1-5 girls who want to solve a problem together

GUIDED LEARNING

Teams learn from the curriculum guided by Mentors who might be teachers, staff, or volunteers

BUILD A SOLUTION

Teams design a web or mobile app solution & complete all their project components

SUBMIT A PROJECT

Teams submit their projects to our global competitions & receive feedback from Judges

What Technovation Girls Make

  • A mobile app or web app

As part of their submission, students will build an app for a real community problem and share its source code and AI tools. Take a look at the some of the apps past teams have submitted in the Technovation App Gallery.

  • Pitch Video

Teams will produce a short video that introduces their app, explains the problem it solves, and makes a compelling case for why their solution works.

  • Business Canvas or User Adoption Plan

This document outlines how students plan to bring their solution to market and/or how they’ve gathered and applied user feedback to refine their product and grow their user base.

(Required for Senior and Junior Division teams)

  • Technical Video

This video will walk through how the app functions, covering the development process, AI integration (if applicable), and future enhancements based on user feedback.

Learn more about our Submission Guidelines and how projects are evaluated with our Judging Rubric:

Submission Guidelines
Judging Rubric

Intellectual Property

Any apps, prototypes or businesses developed for Technovation are the intellectual property of student participants.

Volunteers and Technovation do NOT have intellectual property rights to the ideas, apps, student-generated databases, business canvases and user adoption plans.

Safety

Technovation is committed to maintaining a safe environment for students. Please review & ensure your participants follow these internet safety guidelines.

THE GLOBAL COMPETITION

  • Every team receives personalized feedback and scores from a panel of industry experts to help them grow and improve.
  • Special prizes and scholarships are awarded to outstanding teams, including regional winners.
  • Top-scoring global finalists are invited to pitch their projects live at the World Summit, our signature international event.
  • Finalists have the opportunity to network with mentors, peers, and industry leaders from around the world.

The Role of Coaches

Coaches play an important role in the success of Technovation teams. By providing subject-matter expertise, they help students refine their work and tackle challenges throughout their learning journey.

Receiving constructive feedback is an essential part of that journey. The leadership skills students build are just as important as their technical and coding skills. Your encouragement as they work on their project can have a powerful impact, helping them stay motivated and continue moving forward.

You’ll learn more about the coaching role and its responsibilities in the next module.

What's the difference between a Mentor and a Coach?

A Mentor works with a team for the entire season as a project manager, while a Coach supports a team with specific questions in a single session as a topic specialist.

Program Timeline

Coaching appointments will open on January 27, 2026 and will be available to teams until a few days before our submission deadline on April 20, 2026. Sessions are booked based on Coach’s availability. 

Since we work with a global community of students who have different school schedules, teams will progress on their projects at different times throughout your coaching experience.

Learn more about this season’s program timeline here. 

I still have a question

You can always reach out to Technovation’s Volunteer Engagement Team on Slack or at volunteers@technovation.org.

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