Recently Technovation, a program focusing on girls in technology, arrived at Malden High School. Technovation is a program from the company Iridescent. The Technovation Challenge is a 12 week program where members create an app “that will address a community problem” (Technovation Challenge). Brainstorming, attending workshops, creating a business plan, pitching and marketing the idea to venture capitalists are also vital pieces to the process.
Senior Trang Do mentioned that Technovation really helps with “getting a feel for what the industry is actually like.” Computer science teacher Paul Marques referenced Technovation as the “most real world experience students can have.” This opportunity for real world experiences sets Malden High School apart as it offers students insight into entrepreneurship in technology.
On Feb. 28, 2016 a Technovation “Bootcamp” was held at District Hall in Boston from 2-5 p.m. The program focused on marketing and pitching ideas which helped put everything the Technovation group had done all year into perspective. The bootcamp “redesigned the scope of the project” in a structured, educational environment and showed a lot of hard work. Do cited Technovation Bootcamp as a “quick and simple thing out of a lot of work” and “[gave] insight into what a Technovation [career] would be like.”
Technovation draws in students with a passion for technology and offers them greater experience in the technological field.
