[Yr11 Information Technology] RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] ICT Careers Expo Report

Fri Aug 8 10:05:28 EST 2008

Adrian and all at Vitta;
Thank you for a fantastic Expo.
I have been on Ski Camp with my year 9 students since Sunday morning, so
i only found out yesterday that it was one of my students that ended up
winning the Nintendo. (He does not want to share!)
Every student that came on the trip really enjoyed the experience and
gain lots of valuable information for their career choices.
Thanks again Adrian and I hope it runs again in 2009.

Regards
Andrew Weir

Andrew Weir

Information Technology Co-ordinator

Thomas Carr College

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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ICT Careers Expo Report

Hi everyone (and apologies for the cross posts),

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!).

The Expo wrapped up at 4pm and we had everything packed up within an
hour of this (which was a good effort I thought).

Thank-yous!

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.

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.

Thank you to all of you who promoted this event, encouraged your
students to attend and/or brought students along.

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!).

Cheers,

Adrian

Adrian Janson, 

VITTA President

Director of ICT, 

Melbourne High School, 

Forrest Hill, South Yarra 3141 Australia.

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