Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Japan video!
Yes I am wearing a ski jacket in the photos - it was so COLD! I got a few strange looks from the Japanese but at least I was warm :)
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
International Women's Day Breakfast
Yesterday I went to the annual QRC/WIMARQ International Women's Day Breakfast and presentation of the Resources Awards for Women. It was a great morning - Her Excellency the Governor of Queensland Ms Penelope Wensley AO gave an interesting speech about her experiences as a woman in a male dominated profession.
QRC is doing a great job of encouraging women to get involved in the resources industry. Their aim is to increase the percentage of women in non-traditional roles from 6% to 12% by 2020. Seeing as they've already reached 10%, I think they'll easily exceed that target. As part of QRC's Women in Resources Action Plan, member companies have been taking initiatives ranging from providing PPE specifically designed for women to career development programs, and from allowing flexible working arrangements to providing mentoring and networking programs. I've attended quite a few networking and workshop events for women in engineering and have found them very inspiring and encouraging.
At yesterday's breakfast the 2009 Resources Awards for Women was presented to Sandra Collins. She is a great role model, being the first woman in Queensland to study mining engineering and only the second in Australia, she had to fight legislation which banned women from working underground! Last year's winner, Melanie Gordon, is also a fantastic role model. At a workshop for female engineering students late last year, she gave a speech about her studies (being a poor uni student) and career (now being able to buy lots of Tiffany jewellery) which myself and other students found really entertaining but also eye-opening.
I'd better get back to this assignment...we've only been at uni for a week and I already have 3 assignments!
QRC is doing a great job of encouraging women to get involved in the resources industry. Their aim is to increase the percentage of women in non-traditional roles from 6% to 12% by 2020. Seeing as they've already reached 10%, I think they'll easily exceed that target. As part of QRC's Women in Resources Action Plan, member companies have been taking initiatives ranging from providing PPE specifically designed for women to career development programs, and from allowing flexible working arrangements to providing mentoring and networking programs. I've attended quite a few networking and workshop events for women in engineering and have found them very inspiring and encouraging.
At yesterday's breakfast the 2009 Resources Awards for Women was presented to Sandra Collins. She is a great role model, being the first woman in Queensland to study mining engineering and only the second in Australia, she had to fight legislation which banned women from working underground! Last year's winner, Melanie Gordon, is also a fantastic role model. At a workshop for female engineering students late last year, she gave a speech about her studies (being a poor uni student) and career (now being able to buy lots of Tiffany jewellery) which myself and other students found really entertaining but also eye-opening.
I'd better get back to this assignment...we've only been at uni for a week and I already have 3 assignments!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Uni started back yesterday, should be good to get back into it. I’ve only had one lecture so far because I spent yesterday volunteering at the Science and Engineering Challenge. This was an event where high school kids from all over Brisbane came to UQ to compete in a variety of tasks. The one I was supervising was called “Mission to Mars” and they had to build a buggy which could drive on Mars. Other activities included building bridges, hovercrafts and catapults. The students seemed to be having a great time and getting pretty into it (judging by how competitive they were getting) and I had fun chatting to the students (including some people from my old school) about engineering.
In other news, I’ve just returned from a month long trip to Japan which was AWESOME to say the least. I can’t say a bad word about Japanese people, they were all so friendly. Some of the places I travelled to were:
Tokyo – absolutely HUGE
Utsunomiya
Nikko - which has world heritage national park and historic temples
Hiroshima - the Peace Museum was very moving
Koyasan - where we stayed in a Buddhist temple
Kyoto
Nara – there are about 1500 deer which roam the city. Also home to the world’s largest wooden structure
Osaka
Nagoya - I met up with some Japanese friends here
Hakuba – the ski fields!
Anyway, I’ve put up some photos if you want to take a look. There's a sweet soundtrack to go with them
The Victorian bush fires featured in the Japanese media while I was there and many Japanese people expressed their concerns for the Australians involved. Particularly at the ski slopes, where there were many Australians holidaying, the Japanese had set up donation boxes in lots of the shops and hotels.
Many mining companies have also made donations, including BHP Billiton, Newmont Australia, Iluka (CRL) and Wesfarmers who have together donated over AU$1 million.
If you’d like to donate to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal, you can do so online on the following website:https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp
You can also make donations at post offices and the following banks: Westpac, NAB, ANZ, Commonwealth, BankSA, Heritage Building Society, BOQ, Bendigo Bank.
In other news, I’ve just returned from a month long trip to Japan which was AWESOME to say the least. I can’t say a bad word about Japanese people, they were all so friendly. Some of the places I travelled to were:
Tokyo – absolutely HUGE
Utsunomiya
Nikko - which has world heritage national park and historic temples
Hiroshima - the Peace Museum was very moving
Koyasan - where we stayed in a Buddhist temple
Kyoto
Nara – there are about 1500 deer which roam the city. Also home to the world’s largest wooden structure
Osaka
Nagoya - I met up with some Japanese friends here
Hakuba – the ski fields!
Anyway, I’ve put up some photos if you want to take a look. There's a sweet soundtrack to go with them
The Victorian bush fires featured in the Japanese media while I was there and many Japanese people expressed their concerns for the Australians involved. Particularly at the ski slopes, where there were many Australians holidaying, the Japanese had set up donation boxes in lots of the shops and hotels.
Many mining companies have also made donations, including BHP Billiton, Newmont Australia, Iluka (CRL) and Wesfarmers who have together donated over AU$1 million.
If you’d like to donate to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal, you can do so online on the following website:https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp
You can also make donations at post offices and the following banks: Westpac, NAB, ANZ, Commonwealth, BankSA, Heritage Building Society, BOQ, Bendigo Bank.
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