Two teams of middle and high school-aged girls, who took part in IIE’s WeTech India Afterschool Program in Bengaluru have been selected as 2015 Technovation finalists and will present their mobile apps in a competition at the Technovation World Pitch Event in San Francisco on June 24th.

The finalists were among 14 teams of middle and high school-aged girls from Bengaluru, who were matched through WeTech with Qualcomm, Target, and Goldman Sachs volunteer mentors in January for the 12-week Technovation curriculum. The teams developed ideas and plans for innovative mobile apps that addressed a social problem in their local community. At the end of the project, teams submitted their finalized pitch and demo videos to the global Technovation competition, along with business plans and app descriptions, competing with other teams in the Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.

WeTech is a consortium of dedicated partners led by IIE to design and support a series of innovative activities that provide training, build networks and offer professional opportunities to help women and girls around the world enter STEM fields and succeed in technology careers.