Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Carolyn Van Damme, President of Round Peg Group and judge at the World Pitch event talks about her experience with the Office of Naval Research and their involvement with Technovation Challenge.
Technovation Challenge is the world's largest and longest-running tech competition for girls. The mobile app design and entrepreneurship program's mission is to inspire girls to pursue STEM careers. For 12 weeks, engineers and business professionals from technology companies along with teachers from schools around the world, lead and mentor the girls through the Challenge.
At the end of the program, teams pitch their product to regional judges, and finalists travel to the World Pitch event where they present their projects to a live audience and highly esteemed panel of experts. The winning team is awarded $10,000 in seed funding from Iridescent to take their app to market. For more info, please visit technovationchallenge.org.
Carolyn Van Damme, President of Round Peg Group and judge at the World Pitch event talks about her experience with the Office of Naval Research and their involvement with Technovation Challenge.
Technovation Challenge is the world's largest and longest-running tech competition for girls. The mobile app design and entrepreneurship program's mission is to inspire girls to pursue STEM careers. For 12 weeks, engineers and business professionals from technology companies along with teachers from schools around the world, lead and mentor the girls through the Challenge.
At the end of the program, teams pitch their product to regional judges, and finalists travel to the World Pitch event where they present their projects to a live audience and highly esteemed panel of experts. The winning team is awarded $10,000 in seed funding from Iridescent to take their app to market. For more info, please visit technovationchallenge.org.
