Two Waterloo Region high school student teams are celebrating landmark achievements in the 2026 Technovation Girls competition. For the first time in the Waterloo chapter’s history, a team has advanced to the Technovation Girls World Summit, while another team has been recognized as the second-ranked intermediate-level team in North America.
Technovation Girls launched its global technology entrepreneurship challenge in 2014, connecting participants and mentors through local chapters and clubs around the world. In 2018, Professor Jo Atlee founded the Waterloo Technovation Girls chapter through the Women in Computer Science initiative at the Cheriton School of Computer Science. Each year since, the free 12-week Waterloo program has equipped girls and gender-diverse youth ages 8 to 18 with the skills to become tech entrepreneurs and leaders.
These achievements make 2026 the most successful competition year in the Waterloo chapter’s history.
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