Work Experience

As part of the Work Experience Program, NICTA is offering regular placements to students enrolled in Year 9 to Year 12 in Australia. The placements are usually for one week, at one of the NICTA national locations, and encourage students to observe a range of research and engineering tasks, undertake some supervised work, learn about the workplace and find out about future training opportunities.

What's Up at NICTA?

In the past, Work Experience Program students have worked on advanced research topics ranging from wireless network devices to speech and gesture interfaces to computer games. Here are what some of them said:

Frank (Year 10)

James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW

During my week at NICTA, I added new functionality to an Intranet system allowing to find other people in the company. I discovered programming languages to edit databases (SQL), create web content (HTML), web layout (CSS) and dynamic content (PHP). I used them to allow users to add extra information as well as to set which days of the week they are on site. More in the video...

Eric (Year 10)

James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW

During my week at NICTA, I've been implementing a voice and gesture recognition program into the game The Secret of Monkey Island. This means that one is able to use a small infrared light pointer, a wii remote and a microphone to perform the actions which are normally done using a mouse and keyboard. More in the video...

Alex (Year 10)

James Ruse Agricultural High School

During my week at NICTA, I was tasked use Scratch, a software environment enabling young children to learn programming graphically. I invented scripts that could be used to demonstrate to children what Scratch is and what is does. The whole experience at NICTA was really enjoyable and I had a lot of fun being there and using Scratch. More in the video...

How to Apply?

Email your interest to NICTA's education coordinator.