IT Careers Presentation to Year 10 Schoolgirls at St. Clares, Griffith ACT - Presentation Transcript
Information Technology
Kevin Landale
ACS/Centrelink
Josephine Giddings
Centrelink
What is IT/ICT?!
Busting the Myths
Nerd/Geek
Mac vs PC – Video
Busting the Myths
The Reality
About Me
• Business Analyst at Centrelink for just over 2
years.
• Canberra Young IT Representative in the
Australian Computer Society
• Studied at University of Technology, Sydney
• Play Sport, Guitar, Video Games, Race Cars,
Read Books
• 2nd Degree Black Belt in Karate
• Drawing a Webcomic about Ninjas
Areas of IT
Creative
Enterprise
Web
Infrastructure
Career Pathways
Current Issues in IT
IT and Business:
Understanding each other
Current Issues in IT
“Green” IT
Current Issues in IT
Women in IT
Women in IT
Roberta Williams
• Game Programmer and pioneered
Graphical Adventure games, most notably
the “King’s Quest” series
• Co-Founder of On-Line Systems that
became Sierra Online
Women in IT
Bianca Wirth
• Little Miss Enviro Geek
• Worked in IT for 11 yrs
• Advisory Board Member of Computers Off
• NSW State Lead for the Australian IT
Industry’s Green IT Taskforce
Women in IT
Mary Lou Jepsen
• Founding Chief Technology Officer of One
Laptop Per Child (OPLC)
• Lead the design, development and
manufacture of the OLPC’s laptop
• Pioneered single-panel sequential display
systems (I have no idea what that means
either?!?!?)
This is a basic slideshow without any of my comment more
This is a basic slideshow without any of my commentary that I showed to Year 10 girls at St. Clare's in Griffith, ACT as part of their career's week. less
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