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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Girls,<br>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by
giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer
science and entrepreneurship.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In
the course, students design a mobile phone app prototype, write a business
plan, and “pitch” their plan to a panel of venture capitalists at a
high-visibility, “Pitch Night” event. Winners of each regional Pitch Night come
to the San Francisco Bay Area for a “National Pitch Night,” where they will
compete to have their app professionally developed and distributed on the
Google Android Marketplace.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kate Trimlett<br>
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