Girls from Kazakhstan received the Technical Prize at the Technovation Girls 2024 finale in Silicon Valley

Eight-year-old Aisha Yeset and Eva Zhurkina from Kazakhstan received an award in the Technical Prize category at the Technovation Girls Global Summit 2024, which took place at NVIDIA’s office in Silicon Valley, USA. Their project, the IHear mobile app, uses artificial intelligence technologies to help children with cochlear implants develop speech, understand words, and train their memory. It was recognized as one of the best technical solutions in the beginner category.

Eva and Aisha were the youngest participants among all finalists. Despite their age, their IHear project received high praise for having one of the strongest implementations in terms of code and technical development. The app offers personalized exercises aimed at improving speech and cognitive skills in children with similar needs.

In 2024, nearly 11,000 girls from 69 countries participated in the Technovation Girls program, presenting 3,200 technological solutions to social problems. Kazakhstan showed excellent results: 2,345 girls from the country took part in the program, with 18 teams advancing to the semifinals.

Technovation Girls is a global educational program whose mission is to teach girls from an early age to use technology and entrepreneurship to address current social issues. The program in Kazakhstan is conducted with the support of Yandex Qazaqstan. Over the 8 years of the program’s existence, more than 2,000 girls from different regions have developed their own mobile apps aimed at solving social problems. Kazakhstani teams have won trips to San Francisco seven times, where they presented their projects on the world stage.

Registration for the new Technovation Girls 2024-2025 season has already begun. Girls aged 8 to 18 from any part of the country can participate in the free program and learn how to create mobile apps to solve social problems. Details and registration are available at: technovation.kz.