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Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Internal or external Inria responsibilities

  • Nathalie Revol was in the scientific committee for the Journées Scientifiques Inria (Lyon, 5-7 June 2019).

  • Nathalie Revol was a member of the editorial committee of interstices; she is the scientific editor of this Web magazine since September 2019.

  • Nathalie Revol belonged to the steering committee of MMI (Maison des Mathématiques et de l'Informatique) until July 2019; she is now a member of its prospective committee.

  • Bruno Salvy is “référent chercheur” for the Inria Grenoble Center.

Articles and contents

Nathalie Revol belonged to the working group that elaborated the "7 families of computer science" playcards, launched in February 2019.

Education

  • Nathalie Revol taught "Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge", 10h, to the 4th year students (between Master and PhD) of ENS de Lyon, France.

  • Nathalie Revol works with DANE (Délégation Académique au Numérique dans l'Éducation) of Rectorat de Lyon towards educating primary school teachers, by educating educators (e-RUN); she is a member of the Conseil Scientifique du Numérique.

  • Nathalie Revol presented activities for teaching computer science at every school level, and in particular activities led by Inria, for a Taiwanese delegation (Grenoble, October 2019).

Interventions

  • Nathalie Revol spent 2 days at école Guilloux, with 50 pupils aged 10 (level: CM2), to teach computer science without any computer (so-called "unplugged computer science"): data, algorithms, networks.

  • For high-school pupils (150 pupils): as an incentive, especially for girls, to choose scientific careers, Nathalie Revol gave talks at Mondial des Métiers (in February 2019), collège Jean Zay (Brignais, March 2019) and Girls Can Code (Lyon, August 2019). With Jérôme Germoni and Natacha Portier, she organized a day Filles & Info in November 2019, gathering about 70 high-school girls of 1e and Terminale.

  • For a larger audience: she took part to Pop Science, doing magic tricks in the street at La Duchère, Lyon, May 2019; with Florent Masséglia, she introduced 5 important figures of computer science, chosen among the personalities of the "7 families of computer science" playcard, for L'Esprit Sorcier, for la Fête de la Science, Paris, October 2019, cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypnQe91Pztc

  • Nathalie Revol took part to a day of teaching unplugged computer science for whoever was interested, at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, June 2019.

Creation of media or tools for science outreach

Nathalie Revol belongs to the working group "Informatique Sans Ordinateur", which creates unplugged activities to teach computer science; this group meets twice a year, usually in Lyon.