Oracle Academy’s collaboration with Adfaber for Technovation Girls Romania is helping girls turn ideas into technology with impact. More than 1,400 girls joined the free technology and entrepreneurship program for students ages 8 to 18. Over the course of the program, they worked in teams, identified real challenges around them, and developed mobile app solutions focused on issues such as mental health, personal safety, water quality, financial literacy, accessibility, and support for vulnerable groups.
For Oracle Academy, working with Technovation Girls Romania is part of a broader commitment to expanding access to technology education and helping young people build the skills, confidence, and creative mindset they need for the future. Technovation Girls is a global education program that challenges girls to become creators of technology, not only users of it. In Romania, the program is organized by Adfaber and is open to girls from any school, regardless of prior coding experience.
Participants work in teams to identify a problem in their community, research it, design a solution, and build a functional mobile application. Along the way, they learn not only programming, but also entrepreneurship, user research, teamwork, communication, and pitching.
This project-based approach is one of the reasons the program is so powerful. Students are not learning technology in isolation. They are learning it in context: by asking what their communities need, what users experience, and how digital tools can help.
One of the strengths of Technovation Girls Romania is the mentor community that surrounds the participating teams. Mentors help students structure their ideas, think through the technical and business aspects of their projects, and prepare to present their work clearly.
In the 2025–2026 edition, the more than 1,400 girls participating in Romania were supported by a network of more than 250 mentors. At the Regional Pitch Event in Bucharest, held on May 22, 2026, 13 teams presented their applications and ideas, demonstrating how young students can use technology to respond to real problems with creativity and purpose.
Two Oracle Romania colleagues spoke to the participants: Roxana Chiriacescu, Senior Account Cloud Engineer,and Loredana Vlad, CSS Sales Representative. We thank these colleagues who stood by the teams to support and encourage them at this event.
Applications solve real-world challenges
The applications developed by the teams reflected the students’ concerns and lived experiences. Some focused on mental health support for teenagers. Others addressed safety for women, digital tools for seniors, solutions for children with autism, water quality monitoring, or financial education for young people.
These projects show what can happen when technology education is connected to empathy and problem-solving. Students learn that coding is not just about writing instructions for a device. It is a way to understand a problem, test an idea, collaborate with others, and create something that may improve someone’s life.
For many participants, Technovation Girls is also a first step toward seeing themselves differently. A student who begins the program unsure whether technology is “for her” can finish it having built an app, presented it to a jury, and worked through the challenges of taking an idea from concept to prototype.
That experience matters. Early exposure to applied STEM learning can play an important role in helping girls build confidence and imagine future pathways in technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Technology education is most effective when it is accessible, practical, and connected to real-world challenges. Programs such as Technovation Girls help students develop both technical and human skills: computational thinking, communication, collaboration, resilience, and leadership.
For Oracle Academy, supporting initiatives like Technovation Girls Romania reflects the belief that the next generation of innovators should have opportunities to learn, create, and lead from an early age. When students are given the tools and encouragement to build technology, they also gain the confidence to participate in shaping the digital world around them.
This is especially important for girls, who continue to be underrepresented in many areas of technology. By creating spaces where girls can experiment, build, present, and be taken seriously as problem-solvers, programs like Technovation Girls help expand the future talent pipeline and challenge outdated assumptions about who belongs in technology.
The students who took part in Technovation Girls Romania did more than complete an educational program; they practiced turning observation into action. They learned that a problem in their school, family, city, or community can become the starting point for an idea. And they discovered that technology can be a tool for impact.
Oracle Academy is proud to have collaborated with Adfaber in supporting this journey. Behind the number of 1,400 are girls who built, tested, presented, and believed in their ideas. And that is exactly where the future of technology begins.
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