Section: Dissemination

Science outreach

• Marie Duflot-Kremer took part in various science outreach activities, with a public ranging from primary school kids to golden agers, including high school and potential university students. A selection of these activities is given below:

  • two days at “Fête de la science” in Nancy (Faculté de Sciences et Technologies and ARTEM);

  • a course on Scratch for high school professors in charge of teaching optional course ISN (Informatique et Sciences du Numérique);

  • her explanations of three new unplugged activities (data bases, model checking and text compression) have been recorded by Inria and will soon be added to the Youtube channel of Interstice intended for promoting and sharing such activities;

  • she is in charge of the scientific part of the second module in the Class'Code project, aiming at training teachers and educators for carrying out computer science activities with childrens aged 8 to 14 years;

  • she is a member of two groups including university and secondary school teachers, dedicated to the training of math teachers who now teach computer science to students of age 11 to 18. A day of training was given to high school teachers;

  • “Journée femmes de Sciences”: one day dedicated to the promotion of science towards 14 year-old girls;

  • she is a member of the steering committee preparing an itinerant exposition intended for explaining computer science to the public, to be released in December 2016;

  • she presented unplugged outreach activities to the staff at Cité des Sciences (Paris);

  • she conducted during five months an experiment on the discovery of programming for golden agers using Scratch;

  • she took part in “Pépinière 4.0” and 4.1, explaining computer science concepts to teachers.