The 2017 Country NSW Student's DIGIT Visit.

The Rotary Club of North Ryde runs an annual tour, in May, of local technology based companies for students from Country NSW.  We have been running the programme for 12 years or so.
We work with Rotary clubs in West Wyalong, Forbes and Inverell to source suitable students from year 10 at their local high schools.  We take up to 8 students each year.  The students travel down to Sydney on the Sunday and are then hosted by Rotarians through until Friday morning when they return home. The idea is to provide the students with an insight into not only how technology is used in the workplace but what job opportunities there are available to them after school.

This year Rotarians took 6 Country NSW students Lane Blunsdon, Bobby Wighton, Tessa Pymont, Joshua Penhall, Lucy Holland and German exchange student, Lukas Ciroth  on a series of visits to technology based companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, IBM and Google and other major companies which use technology in their businesses including Coles, Optus, Cochlear and Konica Minolta.  They also saw how technology is used within the Universities of UTS and Macquarie and the Sydney Observatory.
 
Here are some photos from this year's visit. For more photos see here and for photos of the farewell dinner see here.
 
     
Lane, Bobby, Lucy,  Lukas, Joshua and Tessa outside Cochlear with North Ryde Rotarians Liane and David
 
 
       
     At UTS Faculty of Engineering
 
 
           
  A Tour of Cisco at St Leonards
 
 
       
 
   Team paper plane designing and 'pitching'  at IBM
 
    
  The Farewell Dinner at North Ryde Community Aide
 
    
 
  The students' presented their DIGIT experiences 
 
Some comments from participating companies:
 

Hi David

Pleasure as always to host this. Look forward to being involved again next year.

Take care

Nathan

Coles

 

Thanks for the feedback David.


I am delighted your students were able to gain the experiences they had on their visit. Feedback from t he IBM folk was that there were an exceptionally well-mannered group of students. 

David Lee
STG Liaison to SWG and GBS
STG Enablement Manager
IBM Australia and NZ
Ph. 0411-042-133
davidlee@au1.ibm.com

 

Hi David,

It was our pleasure to host the students.  We are pleased that they got such a lot out of their visit not only to Cochlear but also to the other companies they visited.  We wish them all the best for their future.

Kind Regards,

Nicola

Nicola Lovegrove

Team Assistant

 

Cochlear Limited
1 University Avenue
Macquarie University NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA

 

Thanks so much David,

It was wonderful to have them here and I know Deepa and Robert both really enjoyed themselves and getting to know the students. 

Thanks again,

Marie

Coogle

 

Hi David,

You are more than welcome. 

We enjoyed hosting your enthusiastic students, too. A pleasure to spend time with the future of our society. 

Always happy to help. 

Thanks,

Nilram

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Nilram Azadpeyma

SYSTEMS ENGINEER.SALES

Sales / Channels

nazadpey@cisco.com

Tel: +61 2 8446 5782

Mobile: +61 417 134 326

 
 

Level 24

177 Pacific Highway

North Sydney

2060

Australia

Cisco.com

 
   

 

Hi David,

Thank you! It’s always a pleasure to meet the students and I’m always incredibly impressed by their manners. 

I think you do them a great service and we are more than happy to be involved.

Regards

Marisa Rodriguez | LRS & Services Delivery Coordinator | Access Services | UTS : Blake Library | University of Technology Sydney