{"id":926,"date":"2016-02-23T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlawacademy.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=926"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T08:32:00","slug":"parents-invited-discovering-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/2016\/02\/23\/parents-invited-discovering-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents invited &#8211; Discovering Digital World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b>P<\/b>arents Insight Invite<\/h1>\n<p>Young Scot and My World of Work invite parents and career influencers to join the evening insight session on the 29<sup>th<\/sup> of February at the Sir Ian Wood Building at Robert Gordon University. Kicking off at 6:30pm the evening will give you the chance to hear from industry leaders, colleges and schools as they unveil the truth behind a career in digital technology. This is your chance to get your hands on and your heads round the technology industry and learn about local vacancies, alternative employment routes and the job security that the sector holds for your child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scottish digital leaders<\/strong> such as<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Waracle,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Be Positive, Bitwink,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Abertay Ethical Hacking, Robert Gordon University<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and more will be there to unveil the truth behind a digital career. In the evening there will be an<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>exclusive talk from Danny Wilson of Waracle<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who will outline why he chose to pursue a career in app development and what he see\u2019s the future of digital in Scotland looking like. There will also be an<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>interactive panel, with other industry perspectives, education specialists and training providers<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to map out the potential routes into tech that are available. Food and refreshments will be available throughout the evening as you roam through the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>inspiration area and speak one-on-one with local employers and some of Scotland\u2019s more innovative minds in tech<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tea\u2019s, coffee\u2019s and canap\u00e9s will be available all night and the event will finish up around 8pm, but you can drop in for as long or as short as you want.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more and register for free visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discovering-digital-world-edinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk\">https:\/\/discovering-digital-world-aberdeen.eventbrite.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Sweeney<\/p>\n<p>Event Co-Ordinator<\/p>\n<p>Skills Development Scotland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents Insight Invite Young Scot and My World of Work invite parents and career influencers to join the evening insight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}