Technovation Girls Mentor Curriculum
Use this Mentor Curriculum to guide your teams through a Technovation Girls season.
Each week of the student curriculum has a companion guide for mentors to help you feel more confident and prepared to support your team.
Submissions are due on April 18, 2023 at 23:59 UTC / 5pm PDT | April 19 at 1am WAT / 2am CEST / 5:30am IST
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How to use the Mentor Curriculum
Each weekly guide has objectives for your team aligned to the program milestones, agenda templates, activity trackers, and activity goals. Check out the step-by-step guide for more information:
Pre-Season
Mentor Guide: Pre-Season
Get ready for an amazing season with your team! This guide covers what you'll need to know to get set up, prepare your team, and manage the logistics of the Technovation Girls season. Let's get started!
Mentor Guide: Week 1
Topics covered: team building, identifying problems, how we can use technology to solve problems, introduction to AI, introduction to algorithms
Mentor Guide: Week 2
Topics covered: Researching & selecting problems to solve, overview of different app builders, using AI to find patterns
Mentor Guide: Week 3
Topics covered: Identifying solutions, market research, creating business and mission statements, types of coding blocks, AI datasets
Mentor Guide: Week 4
Topics covered: Choosing to create an AI tool or mobile app, Minimal Viable Products, Conditionals in coding, debugging code
Mentor Guide: Week 5
Topics covered: Prototyping, partnering with organizations, planning a project, coding different components, training an AI model
Mentor Guide: Week 6
Topics covered: Marketing a product, calculating revenue, building a business with a positive impact, storing information, software options for AI
Mentor Guide: Week 7
Topics covered: Operating costs, Lists (coding), examples of strong mobile apps
Mentor Guide: Week 8
Topics covered: Outlining Pitch and Technical videos, Business Plan (Senior Division), User Adoption Plan (Junior Division), APIs (Coding)
Mentor Guide: Week 9
Topics covered: Recording Pitch and Technical Videos
Mentor Guide: Week 10
Topics covered: Editing Pitch and Technical Videos
Mentor Guide: Week 11
Topics covered: Reflecting, writing about the team's Learning Journey for submission
Mentor Guide: Week 12
Topics covered: Submitting your project, celebrating!
Additional Resources
Quick links to resources that can help you plan your lessons and support your team
