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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone (and apologies for the cross posts),<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Now that I am (almost) fully recovered from
the events of the last couple of days – it is a good time to give you a
report on how the ICT Careers Expo went.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>In preparation of the Expo, we invited our
exhibitors and presenters to a special networking event which we held on Friday
evening here at MHS during which the event was officially launched by MP Evan
Thornley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>The Expo kicked off at 10am and we already had
a good number of students at the registration desk keen to get involved. Attendance
throughout the day was very steady. We had over 1000 registrations on the
web-site prior to Saturday – which was great!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Most sessions were very well attended
– with the most popular ones being related to the Games Industry, security
and sessions given by tertiary providers. The day began with the Parents
forum – in which a number of panellists spoke about the state of the ICT
job market and were quizzed by the parents that attended. The session had
about 30 attendees and was received very well. A morning tea was provided
and there was a separate prize draw for an iPod Nano.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>We also had a prize draw at the end of the
day, for which many students stayed for – we gave away 2 USB drives (1
person in attendance and 1 not), an iPod Nano donated by Computers Now (to a
little girl who was thrilled) and a Nintendo Wii to someone that had come
earlier in the day but had left. Andrew Evans from Monash Uni then did a
prize draw for a PSP – and when the first name drawn was not in
attendance decided that he would give another away to a person that was present
(which was very generous and a lovely gesture). A student who had only
arrived at the Expo 30 minutes before (missing all of the sessions), was the
lucky recipient.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Brenda Frisk from NextSpace in NZ conducted
a practical workshop to about 20 students in one of our computer labs –
and received a very enthusiastic reception. Some students wanted to ask
her questions – so much so that she was still in the lab 45 minutes after
her session (and going strong!).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>The Expo wrapped up at 4pm and we had
everything packed up within an hour of this (which was a good effort I
thought).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Thank-yous!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Thank you to all of our sponsors and
supporters – in particular – MMV and ACS who are both long term
supporters of both VITTA and the IT education community as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I would like to thank Lisa Chadderton (our
VITTA Project Officer) for all of her hard work on this event. Thank you also
to Renee Houreau (VITTA EO) and the VITTA Committee for their support of this
event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thank you to all of you who promoted this event, encouraged
your students to attend and/or brought students along.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Events such as these are the way that we can build our
subject area up, raise the profile of IT education and deliver the materials
that our students want and need – without each of us having to reinvent
the wheel and organize numerous guest speakers and uni. visits. We will
put some photos up on the VITTA site shortly for those that weren’t able
to attend (and for those that were!).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Adrian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Adrian
Janson, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>VITTA
President<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Director
of ICT, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Melbourne
High School, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Forrest
Hill, South Yarra 3141 Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Phone:
03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Fax: 03
9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>E-mail: <a
href="mailto:janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Website:
<a href="http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au">http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Blog: <a
href="http://jansona.edublogs.org/">http://jansona.edublogs.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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