Down the Years.
Impact. Global.
Teens.
Change. Sustainability.
Past Mentor Talks
How to Humanize Your Brand for Your Tech Startup
Are you a seasoned industry expert, educator, STEM advocate, sustainability doer, engineer, community evangelist, global leader, or someone eager to share their experience with our young innovators at FIC through a "mentor talk" or workshop?
Please reach out to us at contact@applied-computing.org with your speech proposal! Someone from our team will get back to you.
Check out all our previous outstanding mentor talks:
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Danielle Strachman (Founder and General Partner at 1517)- "Teen Entrepreneurship, and 1517 Community"
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Garima Mehta (Experience Designer, Microsoft, Infosys, EY)- "How to Design With Accessibility in Mind?"
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Howie Xu (Founder of VMware Networking, VP of ML/AI of Zscaler)- "Future Impact Challenge Opening Ceremony Keynote"
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Karin Sempf (CEO & Founder of Innova-Nation, We Empower UN SDG challenge Awardee)- "'What Fuels Innovation': A Journey to Innovate and Impact With Your Ideas."
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Neel Shah (COP27 Youth Delegate, Sustainability Lead)- "Empowering Teen Entrepreneurs"
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Tanyette Colon (Founder and CEO of InFUUSE)- "How to Humanize Your Brand for Your Tech Startup"
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Yoonjung Lera (Founder & CEO of Applied Computing Foundation)- "Build a Teen Entrepreneurship Ecosystem"
FIC 3.0 Winners
Trafiki
The traffic light's brain.
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Team Members
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María Alejandra Gómez
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Gianluca Tamburrelli
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Coach
Karin Sempf
Trafiki: First Winner 🥇
Mangopacks: Second Winner 🥈
Mangopacks
Made for Schools, Made by Students
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Team Members
Andrew Chung, Seoha Kim, Pauline Kang, Jeongwoo Lee
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Coaches
Yuval Dolev, Yoonjung Lera
F&H Corp. (Terratech): Third Winner 🥉
Terratech: Cultivate. Monitor. Grow.
Cultivate. Monitor. Grow.
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Team Members
Ricardo Howard, Franccesca Cravioto
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Coach
Karin Sempf
Honorable Mention
Aquamind
Team Members
Emma Li, Landon Pu, Ian Chung, Rahul Arora
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Coaches
Jared Lera, William Sahami