Diffusion and Promotion of Science

IREM

I am member of two research groups at the IREM Clermont-Ferrand. (Most of the resources linked below are in French, but you can contact me if you are interested!)

The ISO (Informatique Sans Ordinateur) Group designs activities to discover computer science without using a computer. Those activities are dedicated to elementary, middle, and/or high school students. Everything that is needed to do those activities is available on the website of the ISO group. Some examples of possible activities:

• Collaborative poster activity: Each student decodes a small part of the image to create a giant pixel art. This activity can be used to introduce the coding of images by a computer (concept of pixel) and binary and hexadecimal writing.

Poster of Alan Turing

• Binary activity: Using a magic trick, students discover the binary writing of numbers (with 0s and 1s) used by computers.

The Girls & Maths & Computer Science Group promotes mathematics and computing to young girls and addresses gender stereotypes. It organizes an annual meeting dedicated to high school girls. In particular, I participated in the organization of two of these events:

• Rendez-vous des Jeunes Mathématiciennes et Informaticiennes of Clermont-Ferrand in 2022: For three days, 20 high school girls from Auvergne came to the campus of the Université Clermont Auvergne. On the program: discussions on gender stereotypes, workshops on computer science and mathematics, and meetings with women working in these fields.
  
  RJMI de Clermont-Ferrand
• Journée Filles, maths et informatique : une équation lumineuse in 2023: A hundred high school girls from Auvergne came to spend a day on the campus of Université Clermont Auvergne. During the day, they met female scientists, discussed gender stereotypes and discovered careers in computer science and mathematics.

Events and animations

I regularly go meet with classes or participate to events open to the public to animate popularization workshops. Here is a non-exhaustive list of events in which I have participated :

• Animation of a computer science workshop (on distributed algorithms, then on Bézier curves) for junior high school students during the MathC2+ internships organized at the Université Clermont-Auvergne during the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 editions.
• Meeting with classes at the Pierre Galéry junior high school in Massiac in 2022.
• Meeting with classes at the La Fayette high school in Brioude in 2023.
• Meeting with classes at the Jeanne D’Arc high school in Clermont-Ferrand during the math week in 2023.
• Sponsorship of a class for the robotics challenge of the Fundation “La main à la pâte”. In 2023, I sponsored an elementary class of the school in St Amand Roche Savine. In 2024, it was an elementary class of the school in Ravel.
• Animation of a discovery of databases workshop during the open days of the IUT Clermont Auvergne in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
• Animation of a discovery of image processing workshop during the Parcours Digital of the Digital League in 2023.
• Co-animation of a discovery of cryptography stand in the forme of an escape game during the Les Nuées Ardentes festival in 2024.

Creation of Activities Related to my Research