IWISH
By Laoise
- I wish: I Wish was a conference encouraging girls to pursue a career in STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology, Maths). There was total of 4 guest speakers, each talking for 15 - 20 minutes. Here is a run down of the speakers and their journey to their career.
- Dee Forbes: Worked for Cartoon Network and ETM and now works for RTÉ. She originally wanted to be a layer but found it didn't work for her. So she then went on to study business and then history, politics and philosophy and that is how she has her job as Director General of Technology and Transforming media in RTÉ.
- Joanna Donnelly: She is a Meteorologist for Met Éireann. Sh always wanted to do maths and science. She did a presentation at the end of college and got to go to Met Éireann. She loved it so much that she never wanted to leave and no it's what she does for a living. She has a book out for kids about weather also?
- Caroline O'Driscoll: She is a partner at KPMG. She was an accountant and left this year after 21 years working there as she felt she could do more. She talked about how the future is going to be so different to the would we have today and that if you haven't found your dream job yet, that's fine as it probably doesn't exist yet. Here are some
- Driverless cars will save 40% more lives on the road
- 82% of teen want to do jobs that help others
- In 2050, there will be 2.5 billion more people in the world, whose jobs don't exist today.
- Jacqueline Elebert: She never wanted to work in anything to do with IT and when she finished college, she got offered a job as an Ad Operations Specialist at Twitter. She wasn't too happy but took the job as it was the only job that suited her at the time. She has ended p loving it and it is still her job today. She lives it as she is always learning something new and her job links her with people in Twitter bases all over the owrld, so she gets to travel and make new friends.
Afterwards, we were led into a conference hall full of different stand from business that specialise in STEM such as Google, Aer Lingus, Sisks, Delcott, Trinity College, Colgate and many more.