So you think you are an IT expert?

A select group of teachers from across Victoria will converge at the University of Melbourne. to create a new secondary school curriculum; computer science for the 'iGeneration.' "Secondary students think they know about I.T.," said Associate Professor Steven Bird, convener of the event, "But the truth is that they have never been exposed to the underlying science." Google is sponsoring a series of workshops at the University of Melbourne with the goal of educating teachers about developments in Computer Science in order to get out a new message to students. "Computer Science is a fascinating and rigorous area of study and it leads to diverse and rewarding employment opportunities", Associate Professor Bird said. "Computer Science powers our information society, but the students we want to attract are still only able to study traditional subjects like Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. We hope to fix this problem." Computing drives innovation in health, entertainment, science and business, and it has transformed the way we conduct science and engineering. Simulation, virtual experiments, computational analysis and prediction have become indispensable parts of the contemporary scientific method. Computation enables us to make sense of data, whether it concerns the environment, the economy, health, entertainment, social and organisational structures, or any other sphere of human experience or endeavour.