Tech girls book available on ThinkGeek.com!

The tech girls book is now available on ThinkGeek.com! Very exciting, the guys there are uber supportive of us Aussie gals, and gals in tech all over the world! So if you have any contacts in the US, feel free to promote it to them! xxx

An ode to a coder girl

Thought you might find enjoy this vid..well done to the creators!

Tech girls profile on Spy Journal

I was recently profiled by local Brisbane company SpyJournal so I thought you might like a read...Thanks Tim and Amanda!

Jenine's geek girl blogger profile

While you are there, you should check out the other geek girl blogs, very interesting reading!

Geek Girl Dinner # 6 an insight into the legal side of IT

Thursday evening the 2nd of July was our 6th Brisbane Geek Girl Dinner. Kay Lam-Beattie, our resident legal IT expert who runs her own business IdeaLaw answered the many legal questions from our Geek Girls. UQ Law Professor Kim Weatherall also helped out with all the many questions....the discussion went well into the night which was a sign of the interest in the many legal challenges that we all face every day as technology professionals, and as everyday users in the online world.

It was a great night of catching up and stimulating conversation, and it was nice to see lots of new faces! Thanks also to the Hutch Bistro for the great food and service! And thanks Tim from SpyJournal for the great pics! Here are just a couple of the pics you can see the rest on Flickr.

National ICT Careers Week 2009

Its that time of year again with the National ICT Career Week nearly upon us. It is held during the week of the 27th July to the 1st of August. Check out the website for information on events all over Australia.

Awards and scholarships - apply now!

Just a quick note about 2 scholarship and award programs which are now available.

The WIT award is Qld based and covers a range of ages and categories:
http://www.wit.org.au/default.asp?PageID=103

and the Grace Hopper scholarship is to get you to the US for the annual Grace Hopper Conference (I have never been but I hear it is incredible!
http://www.gracehopper.org/2009/participate/student-scholarships/

apply and reflect on your great achievements!
Jenine xxx

Geek Girl Dinner # 5 a huge success - go girl gamers!

On the 30th of April we hosted our 5th Brisbane GGD at the Microsoft offices in the city. Was so much fun to play games against other tech girls, and about 50 people attended. Huge thanks to Bronwen for doing most of the organising this time around (so little time at the moment with writing up my PhD) and to everyone who helped to make the night a success. Bronwen has a great blog post here which thanks everyone that needs to be, and gives a great recap of the night.

A few pics of me and Anitza, us tech girls from the book playing our hearts out! :)