Technovation Girls Roadmap: Determine your structure

Technovation Girls Roadmap:
Determine your structure

Step One

Map out your timeline

Determine your structure

Find and train your team

Recruit your students

Launch your program

Determine Your Structure

Technovation is a highly flexible program that looks different depending on the context. Think through how to structure your meetings to leverage your people, resources, and existing infrastructure to fit the program to your community.

Here are some guiding questions :

Who?

  • How many students do you anticipate will participate?
  • How many mentors will support the students?
    👉 Some programs have one lead Mentor who guides all the teams; other programs assign a different Mentor to each team. Or you can do both

What

  • Who will lead the content?👉 Depending on the age and experience of the students, the content may be more student-driven or more mentor-driven.
  • Will you host any special events or workshops?
    👉 You might consider having a launch events, coding workshop, end of season showcase, etc.

When

  • How frequently will you run meetings or workshops for your participants?
  •  How long will meetings last ?
  • For how many weeks total will your program run ?

When

  • How frequently will you run meetings or workshops for your participants?
  •  How long will meetings last ?
  • For how many weeks total will your program run ?

Program Model: One Mentor

All teams meet together with one mentor who facilitates every session

Program Model: Separate Mentor for each team

All teams meet together with a mentor assigned to each team.

(Note: it's often still helpful to have a lead mentor faciliate the meetings.)

Example: An after school club led by a staff member, with volunteer corporate Mentors for each team

Program Model: Teams meet separately with mentors in different locations

Example: students work with teachers at different schools 

Program Model: Teams meet separately with their mentors + all teams gather for a few group workshops

Example: university matches teams with mentors (cololege students, faculty, etc.) and hosts a few weekend workshops