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Technovation Girls x Yandex AI Hackathon — Fergana, Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan · Fergana · See the Uzbekistan profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 81% 33/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Technovation Girls Uzbekistan and Yandex ran a one-day AI-app hackathon in Fergana for 83 participants (18 teams, ages 14–25), part of a national push to close the STEM gender gap, mentored by Yandex staff with prizes for six winning teams.

83 people
Participants (2024-11-09)
18 teams
Teams formed (2024-11-09)
6 teams
Winning teams awarded prizes (2024-11-09)
Technovation Girls x Yandex AI Hackathon — Fergana, Uzbekistan

Details

Promoter
Technovation Girls Uzbekistan / Yandex Uzbekistan
Period
2024-11-09
Keywords
AI education, girls in STEM, hackathon, corporate partnership

Context

Technovation Girls Uzbekistan, described as the country's largest STEM programme for girls, partnered with Yandex Uzbekistan to hold a one-day AI-app hackathon in Fergana on 9 November 2024.

Objectives

To give young people hands-on experience building AI-powered mobile-app prototypes and to promote STEM engagement, particularly for girls, in Uzbekistan's Fergana region.

Activities

83 participants aged 14-25 formed 18 teams and attended masterclasses on generating social ideas, pitching, and using AI tools to accelerate app development, mentored throughout by Yandex employees who also presented the company's education and social-impact work in Uzbekistan.

Results

All participants received certificates and six winning teams were awarded prizes; the same hackathon format was repeated in Nukus later the same month, suggesting a repeatable model, though no follow-up evaluation of skills or outcomes has been published.

Conclusions

The event demonstrates a replicable corporate-NGO hackathon format for AI literacy outreach, but evidence is limited to single-day reach rather than measured learning impact.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
Yandex employee mentors, Technovation Girls Uzbekistan organisers

Conditions for success

  • Corporate partner providing mentors, venue support and prizes
  • Outreach to local youth aged 14-25 across schools/community networks

Common failure modes

  • No mechanism described to assess skills retained after the event

Where it fits

Governance type
corporate-NGO partnership
Scale
local (single-city event, replicated in a second city)

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

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Where it's been adopted

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PlaceWhenAdopterOutcome
Nukus, Uzbekistan 2024 Technovation Girls Uzbekistan / Yandex Uzbekistan —

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