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 Group (Informatique Sans Ordinateur) designs activities to discover computer science without using a computer. Those activities are dedicated to elementary, middle, and/or high school students. They can be found on the IREM website and material can be borrowed. Some examples of possible activities:

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

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. The last meeting (a “Rendez-vous des Jeunes Mathématiciennes et Informaticiennes”) was organised from November 17 to 19, 2022. The next one will be on April 2, 2024.

RJMI in Clermont-Ferrand from November 17 to 19, 2022
RJMI in Clermont-Ferrand from November 17 to 19, 2022

Other Interventions

I regularly go meet with classes or participate to events open to the public to animate popularization workshops. Some examples below:

  • Animation of a workshop “Exploration with luminous robots” for middle-school students during the MathC2+ courses organized at Université Clermont-Auvergne during the 2021, 2022, and 2023 editions.
  • Animation of a workshop “Exploration with luminous robots” for high-school students at the Lycée Jeanne D’Arc in Clermont-Ferrand during maths week in 2023.
  • Sponsorship of an elementary class at the St Amand Roche Savine school for the robotics challenge of the Fondation “La main à la pâte”.
  • Animation of a workshop “Discovery of databases” during the open days of the IUT Clermont Auvergne in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Exploration with Luminous Robots

Exploration with Luminous Robots