Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
May 21, 2015

Media Advisory: Parliamentary Secretary to Attend Youth in Technology Conference

Kevin Parsons, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Darin King, Minister of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development, will speak at the Youth in Technology Conference tomorrow (Friday, May 22) at 1:00 p.m. The event will take place at the College of the North Atlantic�s Prince Phillip Drive Campus, St. John�s.

Bringing together almost 400 Grade 9 students, the Youth in Technology Conference is an annual, daylong conference that exposes young people to a wide range of technology careers in the hopes of providing inspiration for their academic plans. Students are also given a chance to meet with community leaders and mentors working within the provincial technology sector. For more information on this and other Innovation Week events visit www.innovationweek.ca.

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Media contact:
Tansy Mundon
Director of Communications
Department of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
709-729-4570, 693-1865
tansymundon@gov.nl.ca 

2015 05 21                              3:00 p.m.