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(Lizzie Hodgins) I like to start my morning
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by stretching and moving my body
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and then reading and just centring my mental headspace.
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It's like a nice place of acceptance of this is what today holds,
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what am I going to get out of it,
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it really just resets my mind.
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Just like wakes me up,
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hits me with some dopamine.
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After my morning swim, I'll head home,
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jump in the shower and then get on the bike and ride into work.
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My workday is very different.
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I love variety.
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I love having the opportunity to just get hands on and out in the field.
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Last year, in the first six months,
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I think I spent about 30% of my time out of the country.
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I actually hugged the world last year.
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We are a South Australian owned and based passive radar company.
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Our sole focus is on developing passive radar products
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to sell to Defence customers.
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The great thing about Defence Industry is that
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from a sovereign capability, defending our country, perspective
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we need technology that does require decades of engineering
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and testing and support.
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I do a lot of field work interaction with customers,
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so training, delivery, going out and performing trials,
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going out to customer sites and testing a system
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or helping them configure how they need to set up their systems
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to be able to get the best performance out of what they're using.
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Because our system’s passive, it's not transmitting any energy,
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it’s actually really good early warning system
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against any possible threats.
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So we've packed down now,
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which means we can head back inside for lunch
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and make sure it's all good to go for training next week.
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I studied electrical electronic engineering at Adelaide University
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and graduated 2019
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and started a graduate engineering role at a major defence firm.
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From there I actually switched into a software engineering role
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because I do enjoy how software works.
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I enjoy, like, the visual aspects of it.
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I think my Mum really wanted me to go into being a doctor,
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but I think around year 10 or 11 I realised that wasn't
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really what I wanted to do.
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Maths was something I enjoyed in high school.
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My maths teacher actually suggested going to a STEM day
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and I really enjoyed that.
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I just remember coming back from that and being like,
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I wanna do STEM.
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STEM really encourages your curiosity
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and encourages your want to understand how things work,
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which is a really useful skill in terms of career
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but also just in life.
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Sometimes it can be really frustrating.
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Curiosity and creativity are definitely linked
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and they’re something I use every day.
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I'm not 100% sure where I'd be without STEM.
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