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Who we are?
• Ethra Shakarchi
• Lead Developer at HP
• Bachelor of Science in IT from UTS
• ethra.shakarchi@hp.com
• Dr Linda Leung
• Director and coordinator of the course
• Nick Domenicos, Zoranco
Markoski, Cheryl Weber
• Fairfield High School Teachers
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What is SIPRY?
• Social Inclusion Pathways for Refugee Youth
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Expected outcomes
• Interview and presentation skills
• Administration skills
• General IT understanding
• Technical support skills
• Web usability and user interface understanding
• Website development
• Appreciate teamwork
• Understanding of different educational and
career pathways in IT
• More…
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Let’s get started
• Actually before we get started, we need to
exchange more info and talk about some rules…
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What does having a job mean?
• Does anyone here have a job???
• Your expectations and our expectations:
▫ Attendance
▫ Communication
▫ Effort
▫ Collaboration
▫ Rewards and remuneration
• How would you like to be rewarded for doing
your job?
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What skills do you have?
• We will be working in groups, so we need to
understand your skills and how they can be
applied
• So first let’s know each other by answering the
following:
▫ What’s your name, background…etc
▫ What are the things you are good at??
▫ What is your dream job???
▫ Do you want to go to uni? Why?? Why not???
▫ What is your favourite colour!!!
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Next week
• We will dive into interview skill
• We will talk more about IT
• The following weeks:
▫ We will learn more about IT
▫ Learn about the web
▫ Construct a website
