{"id":26142,"date":"2016-08-16T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=26142"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:19:29","slug":"26142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=26142","title":{"rendered":"Go Girl, Go 4 IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go Girl, Go 4 IT has been a fantastic day for the 45 students from Wodonga Senior Secondary College and Wodonga Middle Years College where misconceptions and assumptions about careers in the IT industry have been smashed. &#8220;IT is not just a boys game&#8221; stated Sophie Blachford from Instagram. &#8220;It is an ever evolving industry where the rules and sterotypes are being rewritten.&#8221; The event was held at Deakin University Burwood campus on Tuesday August 16th.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_104140-1024x587.jpg\" alt=\"20160816_104140\" width=\"473\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_104140-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_104140-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through participation in a wide range of Workshops and Keynote Speakers, students were exposed to the many IT entrepreneurs shaping what it now means to #BeTheNerd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Girls have power too&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Bobie (Year 10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Everything can be traced back to IT&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Jordyn (Year 10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;If you get a chance to come on this trip, do it. It will widen your views on IT&#8221; &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Tiarna (Year 11)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m now thinking outside the box regarding my career and IT&#8221; &#8211; <\/em>\u00a0<strong>Laduchelle (Year 10 )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_111224-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"20160816_111224\" width=\"553\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_111224-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_111224-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160816_111224-465x260.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Michelle Heintze<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Multimedia\u00a0&amp; LOTE Teacher<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Girl, Go 4 IT has been a fantastic day for the 45 students from Wodonga Senior Secondary College and Wodonga Middle Years College where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-special-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26142"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26152,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}