By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local
In the offices of the Mission start-up DoubleDutch, a fairly typical Silicon Valley scene unfolded recently: People were pitching ideas for mobile apps. But conducting these marketing presentations were a not-so-typical contingent: teenage girls.
As part of Technovation, a global entrepreneurship program dedicated to getting more young women inspired to pursue careers in computer science, five student teams from Immaculate Conception Academy worked with mentors from DoubleDutch, a business conference tech company with offices in the US Bank Building, to develop mobile app prototypes. One spring day, three of the teams, all with students in either in 11th or 12th grade, pitched their apps to a room full of DoubleDutch employees.
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