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.

1. Information Technology
Kevin Landale
ACS/Centrelink
Josephine Giddings
Centrelink

2. What is IT/ICT?!

4. Busting the Myths
Nerd/Geek

7. Mac vs PC – Video

9. Busting the Myths
The Reality

14. 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

16. Areas of IT

17. Creative

23. Enterprise

28. Web

33. Infrastructure

37. Career Pathways

46. Current Issues in IT
IT and Business:
Understanding each other

49. Current Issues in IT
“Green” IT

55. Current Issues in IT
Women in IT

56. Women in IT
Roberta Williams

57. • Game Programmer and pioneered
Graphical Adventure games, most notably
the “King’s Quest” series
• Co-Founder of On-Line Systems that
became Sierra Online

58. Women in IT
Bianca Wirth

59. • 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

60. Women in IT
Mary Lou Jepsen

61. • 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?!?!?)

62. Women in IT
Josephine Giddings

63. Any Questions?!?!?