The selection round of "Technovation Challenge" was held on May 2, 2018 at D. Serikbayev  EKSTU.  "Technovation Challenge" is a global competition for schoolgirls in the development of socially relevant mobile applications.  The event was held as the Regional Competition and included the projects demo-exhibition and presentations of the projects of 6 senior teams from schools of the cities of Ust-Kamenogorsk and Semey. The general sponsor of «Technovation Challenge" Global IT-contest in Kazakhstan is the charitable foundation "ZHANARTU". The event has been organized also with support of the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan in the framework of small grant alumni scholarship project “Support girls into STEM careers through Technovation” (Diana Tsoy, Tatyana Kolesnikova). Not only schoolgirls and their mentors took part in the event, but also representatives of the “American Corner” and “Maker Space” in Ust-Kamenogorsk, and “Education Abroad” (EF Education First). Schoolgirls presented their projects in English and demonstrated a prototype of a mobile application developed by them to solve an important and relevant social problem.  The judges chose three teams of winners with the use of «Judging Rubric” system. The ceremony of rewarding with certificates and valuable prizes of the winners and participants of the competition was held. The teams that took the first two places will go to Astana or Almaty for participation in the Regional competition, the remaining 4 teams will go to the global refereeing.

We wish our participants to reach the final round of the contest in San Francisco, USA and necessarily implement the mobile applications developed by them!

D. Alontseva