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Comments: 2 +-   How do I talk to 4th graders about IT? on Thursday October 02 2008, @07:54PM Tsunayoshi

Submitted by Tsunayoshi on Thursday October 02 2008, @07:54PM
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Tsunayoshi writes "So I volunteered (well, my son volunteered me) to give a presentation on what I do for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with about a 20 minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily unix/linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company.

I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space.

Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"
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