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TECHNOLOGY TAKES YOU ANYWHERE
Is an annual event aimed at increasing girls' interest in technology and their confidence with using it.
This year the event will be held on Friday the 23rd of July. Registrations have now closed, but please register to be placed on the wait list and show your interest in the event. Click here to register on the wait list.
Date and Times
Technology Takes You Anywhere will be held on Friday the 23rd of July starting at 10am and finishing at 2pm. Schools are encouraged to time their arrival from 9.30am.
Objectives
- Changing Attitudes, Changing Practice, Increasing Engagement
- Increase interest, confidence and competence in the use of a range of information, communication technologies.
- ICT is fun, people-oriented and can take you anywhere.
- Gain awareness that information, communication technology offers a diverse range of pathways to challenging, rewarding, future-based careers.
School Responsibilities
Schools that attend must:
- Provide supervision for each group of 20 girls (or part thereof) that attend. (Upon arrival, girls will be divided into groups of 20.)
- Maintain a high level of student behaviour
- Organise transport for their students to and from the event
- Supervise students during lunch
- Organise students to bring their own lunch to the event
- Bring any signed student media consent forms to the event.
Why run these events?
Aussie girls are opting out of ICT!
In Australia, women comprise between 15 and 25 per cent of ICT employees.[1] In Queensland schools, male students outnumber female students in information technology courses by more than six to one.[2]
Technology Takes You Anywhere is a special event aimed at increasing girls interest in technology and their confidence with using it. Through this event girls will be exposed to a range of different technologies. Older girls will also discover the diverse range of challenging and rewarding pathways that exist within the ICT industry.
Girls attending this event will have the opportunity to listen to speakers from a range of fields and on topics from biotechnology to creating programs for mobile phones. They will also experience hands-on workshops and visit MyMultiMedia. MyMultiMedia will include and animated film festival and activities such as robotics, forensic science, interactive whiteboards, music-making and videography as well as web, e-commerce and graphic design.
There are great prizes on offer, too.
Technology Takes You Anywhere is not about excluding boys. It is about engaging girls with technology and raising awareness of the possibilities that are available to them. It is about encouraging girls to take up ICT and science-based subjects at school and in tertiary studies. It is about levelling the playing field so that young women have the same sorts of opportunities for employment in the ICT industry as men currently have.
[1] Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australia. Building Australian ICT Skills - Presentation to the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems - 26 September 2006, Commonwealth of Australia, 2006, p. 5.
[2] Polesel, J. & Teese R., The next step report 2006 on the destinations of Year 12 completers in Queensland, Department of Education and the Arts, Queensland Government, 2006. p. 15.
2009 Technology Takes You Anywhere Report
2008 Technology Takes You Anywhere Report
2007 Technology Takes You Anywhere Report
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