Martha Alade, the President Woman in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN), has said that winner of Technovation Challenge 2015 would be rewarded with a cash prize of $20,000 (#3.8M).
Alade disclosed this recently in Lagos,during a media briefing on commencement of 2015 Technovation Challenge.
She called on the young Nigeria Girls to develop a mobile application that would help them solve real-world problems.
She also said that as a programme of radiance, the mission of Technovation was to empower young woman to use technology to make a world a better place.
According to Alade, in 2014 about 1500 Girls from around the globe developed 362 mobile applications making technovation the largest global technology entrepreneurship programme for Girls.
"Technovation 2015 challenge is here! Registration is open until February 2015, This Challenge is open to Secondary School Girls between the ages of 10 and 18, who would work in teams of five to develop mobile applications.
"They will conduct market research write business plans and create a 'pitch' for funding.
"Each team is expected to work with a classroom teacher in their school and a female mentor/role model from the technology industry" she said
The WITIN President added that the teams would complete in one of two divisions of 'middle class' and 'high class' and top-ranked teams for each division would qualify to travel San-Francisco for the World Pitch
"At World Pitch, one winner from the middle school category will be selected to win $10,000 and one winner from the high school category will be selected to win $10,000, All teams must register on technovationchallenge.org , "she said.
Alade said Technovation's mission is to motivate and educate Girls and Women to solve real world problems through technology, inspiring girls to see themselves not just as users of technology, but as inventors, builders ,designer and entrepreneurs in the industry.
"The girls are taught life skills such as how to identify a problem,design and test a solution, collaborate with a team and communication to a different audience.
"It reinforce academic concepts such as digital representation of information,algorithmic thinking and programming and the societal impact of information and information technology.
"Over this period ,girls will be trained two hours a week to develop a potential solution to a problem and programme a mobile phone app to solve it.
"The application must solve a problem in their local community, This could be a health problem that affects their community, a social problems or even lack of a resources "she said.
Technovation is a technology entrepreneurship programme and competition for young women. Through its intensive 3months, 50hours curriculum, teams of young woman work together to imagine, build, design and develop mobile applications, then pitch their "startup" businesses to Judges.
