Technovation Girls App Building Competition
- Organization: Technovation
- Type: Competition
- Location: Global
- Deadline: March 11, 2027
- Age: 8 to 18
- Funding: No Funding
Technovation, a US nonprofit, runs the Technovation Challenge, a free season in which teams of one to five students aged 8 to 18 find a real problem in their community and build a working tech solution for it, using code and or AI, along with a business plan and a pitch. Teams work with an adult mentor from October to May and submit to a global competition judged in three rounds. The Girls Track is for girls and for nonbinary, transgender and gender nonconforming students who want a female-identified team environment; its 15 finalist teams are flown to the World Summit, where one Grand Prize winner per division is named. **What you get:** - A free curriculum of 40 or more hours on coding, AI, product design and entrepreneurship - Feedback from volunteer judges on every submitted project - Regional Honors: a $250 educational stipend for each team member (30 teams in 2027) - Finalists (15 Girls Track teams): a $500 educational stipend per person, plus free travel and accommodation for the whole team to the World Summit, which Technovation values at more than $10,000 per team - Grand Prize winners (one per division): a $750 educational stipend per person, in place of the $500 **What you'll do:** - Form a team of 1 to 5 students, find a mentor, and register on Technovation's platform with parental consent - Pick a real problem in your community and build a working solution: a mobile or web app, an AI project, a data dashboard, an automated workflow or AI agent, a coded robot or gadget, or (Beginner division) a Scratch project - Test it with real users, write up a business canvas and learning reflection in English, and record a pitch video - Submit by 5 May 2027 and compete in quarterfinal, semifinal and final judging rounds **Key dates:** - Registration opened October 2026 - 10 February 2027: the latest Technovation recommends starting - Registration closes 11 March 2027 at 23:59 UTC - Submissions due 5 May 2027 at 5pm PDT - Quarterfinal judging 11 May to 7 June 2027; semifinalists announced 14 June 2027 - Semifinal judging 15 to 28 June 2027; finalists and Regional Honorees announced at a virtual celebration in July 2027 - World Summit: date and location to be announced **More information:** - Award structure: https://technovationchallenge.org/award-structure/ - Submission guidelines and division rubrics: https://technovationchallenge.org/submission-guidelines/ - A Co-ed Track, open to students of all genders, runs for the first time in 2027; its finalist numbers and prizes will be set after submissions close
