FutureSkills I.T & Computing Centre of Excellence - Girls in ICT Day Festival

4/26/2018

Europe, United kingdom, Dakota Avenue, Salford M50 2PU, UK

200 participants

Join us on the 26th April to celebrate the annual Girls in ICT Day at FutureSkills@MediaCityUK 

A great range of activities will be available that showcase the pathways available for careers in this most fantastic of subjects - for all.

Guests from partners will be available to discuss key topics on the day and a whole host of skill building and competitions will be on show.

Join us at the FutureSkills I.T & Computing Centre of Excellence and help to Expand Horizons - Change Attitudes!!!

UPDATE FROM THE DAY:

We all had a fantastic day with so much in it that it is difficult to begin to explain.

Approximately 400 guests joined us at our FutureSkills campus from the I.T & Computing, Media, Games & Journalism and Media Make Up departments. A real cross-college event to heighten awareness of girls in ICT.

Our friends from Manchester Metropolitan University joined us to discuss Degree and Career pathways in our fantastic subject field.

Examples of events on the day included the following;

1. Build a Computer
2. Digital Animation Workshop
3. 3D and Special Effects Workshop
4. Doom! Gaming Challenge
5. JavaScript Gaming Challenge
6. Coding Workshop & Challenge

And so much more.

The competition for the day was to answer a series of questions - the tie-breaker being "Why is Girls in ICT a Good Idea?"

Our guests from MMU picked 3 winners who won a tablet PC, Computer Science Mug and Coaster set, USB Memory Stick and T-Shirt.

Following on from the annual resounding success of our event, we have decided to issue a monthly Girls in ICT e-magazine that will be published by the female I.T & Computing students and will be distributed globally.

Watch this space!!!

Please see images from the day - a great event, once again.

We would like to thank a series of people for making this event possible and such a success;

Steph Riley (Main Organiser)

Staff from FutureSkills for bring their students to the event arena

The catering team (very popular!)

Our I.T Technicians

Our Head of Department Cheryl Smith (and Lead Girl in ICT)

All of our amazing students for making this day such a great success

Bring on next year!!!