Mentors
Mentor the next generation of changemakers
Help girls tap into their innovation, bravery, and power
As a Mentor, you’ll support a team of girls for a full Technovation Girls season. This means you’ll work closely with a group of girls 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.
TIME COMMITMENT: 30-40 hours in total:
1-2 hours for onboarding + 2-4 hours a week
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!)
Note: Mentors in Canada, India, Nigeria and the US are required to pass a background check before working with students.
Why You Should Mentor
If you’ve read this far, it’s clear you really care about things like education, your community, gender equity, and the future. Volunteering as a Mentor means you get to actively support all of those things.
You’ll also meet incredible, passionate girls 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
We are proud to work with mentors from companies that include:
Oracle
Ericsson
Santander
Repsol
Yandex
NTT DATA
Adobe
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
BBVA
IBM
Universidad de Guadalajara
HP
Universidad Católica del Norte
BNP Paribas
Inditex
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Universidad de Tarapaca
Salesforce
Verisure
Celfocus
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
NIS
Kidspire Vietnam
Instituto Paramitas
GFT
UCAB
Globant
Root's International Schools and Colleges, Pakistan
Universidad Metropolitana
Universidad de Concepción
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Morgan Stanley
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.
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.
