![]() ![]() It was impossible to know who was going to advance. About 5,000 girls from 60 different countries entered. One challenge in making the film was figuring out who to follow during the process. If she wants to solve a problem, she starts thinking about the steps she needs to take to get from point A to point B. One moment that stuck out to Chilcott was when a girl named Melissa from the Massachusetts-based team Ameka, which creating an app aimed at preventing teen drunk driving, said no one had ever asked her before to identify a problem in the community and then ask how she would solve it. While they’re lower profile than similar organizations, the receive funding from the US Navy, and they’re the largest technology education program in the world, said Iridescent CEO Tara Chklovski. They’ve had about 10,000 girls go through some part of their program so far. Technovation is a part of non-profit Iridescent. The result is a documentary that follows various teams from the beginning of the process, all the way to the final pitches in San Francisco, and awarding of the top prize–$10,000 in seed money to make the team’s app a reality. “I thought it was the coolest thing and was like, ‘Ok, I have to make a film about this,'” she said. In that way, she learned more about the Technovation Challenge. The partnership with Technovation came about as Chilcott was looking for a classroom of young kids learning code that she could include in the film, and Technovation had a partner company in Los Angeles doing just that. It was challenging finding them, especially in more high-profile roles in the computer science field. In the process of doing interviews, she realized she was having to go out of her way to make sure women were represented in the piece. ![]() Several years back, Chilcott was making a short film for. Last year, filmmaker Lesley Chilcott, who produced Waiting for Superman and an Inconvenient Truth, set out to make a documentary about the girls participating in the challenge. Teams from around the world have three months to design an app that addresses a problem in their communities, write a business plan, and make a pitch video. It’s also an issue that makers of the new documentary CODEGIRL are hoping to address by bringing the story of the 2015 Technovation Challenge to girls all over the world.įor background, the Technovation Challenge is a six-year-old competition for high school girls. That’s one of the baseline problems women of all ages face in the tech industry - the numbers of women working in tech are low, and girls and young women have noticed. It’s difficult to want to be what you can’t see. The documentary follows the 2015 Technovation Challenge, in which girls from all over the world code mobile apps to address problems in their communities. CODEGIRL documentary shows high school girls that they too can use tech to change their communities ![]()
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