Schedule - 2025
Hybrid sessions
We continue to run our Technovation Girls Toronto chapter in a hybrid format this season. We plan to hold weekly sessions virtually, to go over curriculum content, and biweely sessions on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus (formerly Ryerson) to allow our GTA teams to work together in person.
The virtual sessions will run on Tuesday evenings. The in-person sessions will run biweekly on Saturdays.
To ensure cyber safety, we provide workshop details and links only to students and mentors who have registered with our chapter.
Curriculum
We will be following the Technovation Girls curriculum (external link) . Note that that there are some key changes to the curriculum and submission rules (external link) . Returning girls should be sure to check what has changed.
Our schedule will include topics covering the various aspects of the Technovaiton curriculm:
Ideation
Coding
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Entrepreneurship
Pitch
Toronto schedule
Our chapter sessions align with the revised Technovation Girls global curriculum. Invited speakers will cover most of the topics. Participants registered with our chapter will receive details about attending the sessions, including links to join the virtual meetings.
For security purposes, session links and details will not be posted on this public site.
If we make any changes to the schedule, we will post the updates as soon as they are confirmed.
| Curriculum unit | Date |
Format | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25 | in-person | Program kickoff - welcome, information and networking | |
| 1 | Jan 28 | virtual | Introduction Identifying problems Solving problems with technology Exploring mobile and web app builders Algorithms |
| 2 | Feb 4 | virtual | Researching problems Selecting your problem Coding: events and blocks AI: overview and finding patterns |
| Feb 8 | in-person | Team time with mentors | |
| 3 | Feb 11 | virtual | Identifying solutions Market research Business & mission statements Coding: conditionals |
| 4 | Feb 18 | virtual | Minimum viable product Coding: components Debugging your code AI: datasets |
| Feb 22 | in-person | Team time with mentors | |
| 5 | Feb 25 | virtual | Paper & cardboard prototypes Partnering with organizations Planning your project Coding: variables and lists AI: train your model and web apps using AI |
| 6 | Mar 4 | virtual | Marketing your product Positive Impact Coding: app examples |
| Mar 8 | virtual (optional in-person) |
Office hours and team time with mentors | |
| Mar 11 | March Break - no workshop | ||
| 7 | Mar 18 | virtual | Calculating revenue Calculating operating costs Coding: APIs (from unit 8) |
| 8 | Mar 25 | virtual | Outline pitch & technical videos User adoption plan (junior division) Business plan (senior division) Coding: storing data (from unit 7) AI: software options (from unit 7) |
| Mar 29 | virtual (optional in-person) |
Office hours and team time with mentors | |
| 9 and 11 | Apr 1 | virtual | Record pitch & technical videos Learning journey (from unit 11)
|
| 10 | Apr 8 | virtual | Edit pitch & technical videos |
| Apr 12 | virtual (optional in-person) |
Office hours and team time with mentors | |
| 12 | Apr 15 | virtual | Submitting to the competition Preparing a live pitch presentation |
| Apr 26 | virtual (optional in-person) |
Office hours and team time with mentors | |
| May 5, 2025 | Submission deadline (8 pm EDT) | ||
| May 24 | Virtual | Virtual live pitch celebration event (not official judging) |