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The organizers of the Mulheres Tech Awards in Sampa, launched at the end of last year, during the 3rd Entrepreneurs Forum at FGV, in São Paulo, revealed the winners of the award, during the Campus Party Brasil. The five winning projects were chosen from more than 60 registered initiatives.
 
The award was created to encourage the performance of women in the technology area and was carried out by Rede Mulher Empreendedora (RME), Google For Entrepreneurs and Tech Sampa, a policy of the São Paulo City Hall to promote new technology companies.
 
The five projects received a total of 50 thousand reais, with 10 thousand for each one. The chosen initiatives aim to stimulate female entrepreneurship with a focus on technology and are coordinated by women. The objective is to increase the participation of women in the city's startup ecosystem through free or low-cost initiatives carried out during 2015.
 
 
The winning projects are:
 
Techbivation – encouraging young women
Coordinated by Camila Achutti, this project aims to inspire girls and women in an entrepreneurship and programming competition. Teams in the Elementary II and Middle School divisions will work on programming and developing the business strategy for an application that solves a real problem.
 
Hacker Round – encouraging young women
Coordinated by Gabriela da Costa Aguiar Agustini, it is a programming workshop specially designed for girls and women. A meeting for those who want to imagine and build incredible projects and recreate network technologies.
 
Girls in Tech Channel – networking/better communication
Coordinated by Loana Felix, the project consists of creating a Girls in Tech YouTube Channel (a Vlog), where tutorial videos will be published weekly on a topic previously raised and researched within the Girls in Tech Blog, the Girls in Tech Facebook page, and also with the collaboration of other partners.
 
Startup in School – entrepreneurial education
Jaciara Martins Fontes Cruz intends to develop workshops for elementary and high school students inspired by the CANVAS business model generation model and hackathons, with a methodology adapted for teenagers.
 
WOMEN 50+ in Network – encouraging more mature women
Tássia Monique Chiarelli's project will be developed in the form of weekly and face-to-face workshops with the purpose of training women who already have a small business in matters related to the digital area, in order to increase their domain in the virtual environment, improve visibility your business and generate new perspectives for digital entrepreneurship.
 

 

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