I recently gave a talk to students at Western Canada High School about careers in computing. Like most IT-related programs, our Computer Information Systems applied degree has seen a massive decrease in numbers since 2001. These low enrollments have never really picked up, even though the job market for our graduates in Calgary is phenomenal. I put together this presentation in the hopes of attracting a few more students into our program.

 I tried a new approach with this presentation. I wanted to make it visually more punchy and not look like the typical PowerPoint presentation. I've included a few captures of some sample slides from the presentation.

The complete presentation is available below. You are free to use it, but please do not re-distribute it or re-post it.

high school session 2007 march.pdf (2.00 mb)