Section: Dissemination

Science outreach

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

  General activities.

  • She is responsible for the scientific part of the fifth and last module in the Class'Code project (supervising a programming project from scratch), aiming at training teachers and educators for carrying out computer science activities with childrens aged 8 to 14 years.

  • Three days at “Fête de la Science” in Nancy (Faculté des Sciences et Technologies) and at Cité des Sciences, Paris, including a visit of the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Frédérique Vidal.

  • She is a member of the steering committee of an itinerant exhibition, intended for explaining computer science to the public, and that had its opening in early 2017.

  • She co-organized the SCRATCH17BDX international conference on Scratch and creative programming for kids in Bordeaux.

  Activities for teachers/trainers.

  • She is a member of three working groups (unplugged activities, programming in secondary school and in high school) including university and secondary school teachers, dedicated to the training of math teachers. Two days of training on unplugged computer science activities were given to secondary and high school teachers.

  • A training session for kindergarden teachers to include in their “school project” unplugged activities related to programming for kids from 3 to 6 years old.

  • Several activities for the “ISN day”, aimed at high school teachers teaching computer science courses.

  • A publication (post proceedings to appear in 2018) was accepted at the COPIRELEM colloquium, aimed at math trainers for primary school teachers.

  Activities for students/pupils.

  • Several activities for school kids from 6 to 10 years old at Ecole Marcel Leroy, Nancy.

  • She was involved in the Math en Jeans project where secondary school kids discover what doing research means.

  • Various outreach activities (related to data bases, model checking, algorithms etc.) during two days aimed at presenting the university to high school students.