Romance was in the air at Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bathurst graduation last week when Donna Trim and Leigh McCulloch received their Bachelor of Computer Science (Games Technology) degrees. Donna is the first female graduate of the course, “I knew it would be male dominated but I thought there might be at least one other girl. It was kind of normal for me going through High School doing IT subjects like computer programming with mostly males.” There was an upside however: “I got quite a bit of attention being the only female." Leigh and Donna, who met while doing the Games course, are now real-life partners. The day was an extra special one for them, with Leigh giving the Vote of Thanks, graduating with distinction, receiving the School of Information Technology Prize for Academic Excellence, and “our parents meeting each other for the first time which was exciting”. CSU’s Information Technology does have a female Head of School, Associate Professor Sue Moffat, who says “there are only two female academics in this School. It would be nice if we managed 50-50 in my lifetime but a ratio of one third females is something to aim for.” Donna enrolled in the Games course because she loves working with computers and loves playing games. She now has her “dream job”, programming multiple player mobile phone games for Viva La Mobile in Surry Hills in Sydney.