About the Rosa Challenge
The Rosa Challenge is an initiative to empower girls and women to achieve greater equity and improve their local communities by leveraging physical computing and design thinking to solve real-world problems. All submissions will follow a public benefit philosophy: open source software, open implementation designs, and open tutorials and documentation. The fully open nature of each submission will inspire others and enable anyone to learn, recreate, modify as needed, and further innovate upon the original problem-solving goals and solutions.
Target Audience
The program will initially target participation from within TechWomen countries (currently 21 countries in Central and South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East). Girls and women will be trained and mentored by local ambassadors, many of whom will be alumni (fellows) of the TechWomen program. Teams will compete for rewards and resources on an annual basis. For even stronger mentorship support, girls teams ages 18 and under will also be encouraged to participate and submit the same (or similar) project idea to the Technovation Girls program.
Management and Sponsors
The program is currently run and managed by volunteers. Two co-founding sponsor organizations that are helping drive the strategy are nonprofit organizations:
We also thank these key non-profit organizations since each one has provided some form of benefit to launch this program:
Questions? Ready to Participate?
If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please contact our team at [email protected].