Friday December 14, 2007
Back to School While on a trip back to Scotland to visit my parents I visited the school I attended, Auchenharvie Academy in Stevenston. This wasn't pre-planned; my Mum & Dad are foster parents and one of the boys they foster is due to move up to secondary school (high school, grade 8+, what ever you call it where you come from) and they had recently visited my old secondary school on open night. My parents got talking to Mrs Anderson one of the Computing teachers and my Mum mentioned that I worked for Sun and was an ex pupil, he up shot was an open invitation for me to go an talk to the students taking the computing classes.
I spoke to the higher (grade 12) computing class (about 10 students) about how I got in to computing as a career and what it is like working for Sun. I hope the students found it interesting, I certainly found it very interesting how much they are learning (some of what they cover wasn't covered until the 2nd year of my degree course) and it was fun to talk with them and the teachers.
I left them with an open invitation to contact me on my work email address if they have any follow questions about anything, I hope to hear from both the teachers and students.
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