Showing girls IT’s amazing

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Clayton, Kaylene
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2006
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The importance of encouraging students, especially females, into the ICT field cannot be understated. Throughout Queensland and Australia, mentoring programs and other initiatives have been instigated in order to encourage girls into ICT study paths and careers. Three initiatives targeting different groups of female primary and high school students in various ways have been described in this article. All of these initiatives have provided optimistic results in the interim in terms of promoting positive ICT attitudes and/or encouraging females into ICT careers and study paths.The importance of encouraging students, especially females, into the ICT field cannot be understated. Throughout Queensland and Australia, mentoring programs and other initiatives have been instigated in order to encourage girls into ICT study paths and careers. Three initiatives targeting different groups of female primary and high school students in various ways have been described in this article. All of these initiatives have provided optimistic results in the interim in terms of promoting positive ICT attitudes and/or encouraging females into ICT careers and study paths.
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AUSWIT 2006: partICipaTion one year on
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© The Author(s) 2006 Griffith University. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. It is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distributions permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author. First published in Proceedings of AUSWIT 2006.