SWIEIT Speakers’ Visit – Bankstown Senior College, 13 June

On 13 June SWIEIT Speakers Ashwini and Clarisse visited Bankstown Senior College to speak to 25 students in years 10-12. Bankstown Senior College has a unique learning environment for students with a four day school week and no school uniforms. The college predominantly caters to mature age students who come from diverse cultural backgrounds including Arabic, Assyrian, Somali, Vietnamese, Serbian, Kurdish and Chinese.

Ashwini spoke of her initial perceptions about engineering as a career including her pathway from UWS to UTS, experiences studying at University and her future aspirations working in the engineering profession. The students at Bankstown Senior College were a very receptive audience and enthusiastic in asking questions. Clarisse opened up about her experiences since graduating from Information Technology degree program earlier this year and reflected upon her opportunities which included the chance to travel to the Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, USA as part of her job working for the world's richest man - Bill Gates :-)

We would like to thank Bankstown Senior College for organising a visit with the SWIEIT Speakers team. We look forward to seeing you again in 2014.