The Technovation Challenge is a worldwide, technology computer-science entrepreneurship competition for teams of middle- or high-school girls.  This year, sparked by a notice in NewtonSTEM, two Technovation teams were formed at Newton South HS, and one of those teams — the TechnoLIONS — entered the global competition.  Last week, at a pitch session at MicrosoftNERD, the TechnoLIONS won the second-place award among 50 teams competing statewide.  The TechnoLIONS will now take their app, Homework Helper, to compete in the national finals in San Francisco in July.

Inspired by another notice in NewtonSTEM, the TechnoLIONS also competed in the Dream It. Code It. Win It. competition at Cooper Union in New York City, where they won the High School Student Competition, the FIVERR Career Award, and a Career Day with Jocelyn Scherer, Founder and CEO of Bionolux Labs — who is, coincidentally, a Newton resident.  Congratulations, TechnoLIONS!