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when you think of app developers schoolgirls might not be the first people that come to mind since 2010 5,000 girls from 45 countries have tried to change that by taking part in the Technovation challenge through a period of three months girls learn how to identify a problem in the community and then create a mobile app that solves it but most importantly actually launch a business or a start-up real-world problems that team solve include anything from helping students give feedback on assignments to an app that can help diagnose concussion when we actually looked at the Apple apps on the market we saw that they could have been a lot more developed and made a lot better than they were so we decided to create own one girls taking part in the challenge don't need to have any previous coding experience programming through app inventor which is what we use to make class connect was a first through me and I definitely learned a lot through that while many other programs teach girls to code Technovation mentors focus on entrepreneurial skills like business planning and pitching to venture capitalists in terms of the business plan they were also really helpful because none of us really had any idea what that was helping the next generation of entrepreneurs also means addressing the imbalance of Women in Technology Census Bureau figures say that women make up fifty-nine percent of the total US workforce but only thirty percent of workers that major tech companies are female we did a look-back survey and seeing where are the girls now that went through Technovation and almost fifty percent of the girls who are now in college intend to major in computer science because of techno asian girls don't just want to have fun they also want to help change the world in San Francisco Lexus avedis cnet.com for CBS News