Thursday, October 30, 2008

Go Girl Go For IT! Melbourne Oct 08


Another great week! I spent 2 days at Go Girl in Melbourne which was held at Deakin University. I presented 4 times over the 2 days, with 1700 girls attending over both days. The other presenters were brilliant with some awesome topics covered. The presentations and audio of the speakers will be posted on the web soon so I will link to them. Meanwhile, you can see some pics here. A number of people asked me about my pink fluffly laptop cover, my mum makes them for me and you can buy one here. You can buy one of the pink sparkly mouses here.

One of the book authors, Alana, bought along her digital divas from a local highschool, and we were asked for our autographs :) One of my fave pics from the event...

Enjoy the weekend! :)
Jenine

Girl Geek Dinner # 2

A great event! :) Google were kind enough to sponsor dinner #2 by covering the food costs and sending a female engineer up to talk to us. Susannah Raub was on the selection committee for the Anita Borg Scholarship so I got to meet her while in Sydney at Google in September. She is such a great role model for young girls and for women working in the industry, and was kind enough to share some of her personal and work experiences with us. It was awesome to see such a great turn-0ut on the night. Thanks ladies! :)

Kitty's blog post and pics which sums things up nicely...

Keep posted for Girl Geek Dinner #3 in December 08.

Jenine

Sunday, October 26, 2008

What a week!

I had a fabulous week last week promoting the book. All girls I presented to received a free copy.

On Monday, I was invited by Zonta to present at Tambourine Mountain High School. Was a bit of a drive but it is such a beautiful spot! And it was a student free day so I was most impressed by the 25 girls who came in on the day for the presentations! Thanks girls, and thanks for entertaining me over lunch! And thanks Melanie for inviting me. The feedback was "We were all very inspired by your energetic presentation and we certainly have a greater appreciation of IT and the careers available. The feedback from the girls was extremely positive". 

On Thursday I presented as part of a panel of fab IT women at All Hallows' School. It was heaps of fun. Thanks to Chad (the IT teacher) for inviting me and to the other speakers. We sure need more IT teachers like you! :)
The feedback was "Thanks again Jenine, for your time today! Your presentation was truly interesting and inspiring".

Then we had our 2nd Brisbane Geek Girl Dinner on Thursday night. Just waiting for some pictures, post to come! :)

Jenine :)