Computer Beaver (castor informatique) and Algoréa

Open from CM1 to Terminale, the Castor competition aims to introduce young people to computer and digital sciences.

The next step is the Algoréa contest, designed to accompany students as they learn programming and algorithms, in Blockly, Scratch or Python languages.

More info: http://castor-informatique.fr/home.php

Math club

The school offers an extracurricular math club (every Monday from 3:45 to 4:45 pm) that is dedicated to the preparation of the University of Waterloo Canadian and Mathematica Centrum competitions. Students practice on topics from past competitions and can thus brush up on mathematical concepts that may be part of the topics but are not covered in the French National Education curriculum.

Robotic club

This extracurricular activity has two objectives:

• Deepen your knowledge of LEGO EV3 robotics and train in teams of 2 to 4 students to participate in the ZONE01 robotics competition.
• Carry out in teams of 2-4 students an electronic project of your choice (using Arduino and Raspberry Pi microcontrollers).

Math in Jeans is a method, which since 1989, aims to bring mathematics into the lives of young people, according to the principles of mathematical research. It allows young people to meet researchers and to practice a genuine scientific approach in a school environment, with both theoretical and applied dimensions.

Every week, starting in September, volunteer students and teachers from two schools twinned for the occasion work in parallel on mathematical research topics proposed by a professional researcher.

Several times during the year, the students, teachers and researcher involved in the two workshops meet for “seminars” where they exchange their points of view, debate and share their ideas.

Each year, between March and April, the students present their research work in a venue that brings together students, teachers and researchers.

Algorithms and Programming occupy a privileged place in French curricula: Their progressive teaching allows us to develop rigour and logic in our students and helps them to better understand the digital world around us.

Learning sequences take place during mathematics classes in the classroom every week from 6th to 3rd grade. In 6th grade, our students program using the GeoTortoise software, from 5th to 3rd grade with SCRATCH.

From Seconde to Terminale, the Python language is taught. In 1st and 12th grade, the NSI speciality (Numerical and Computer Science) allows to discover and deepen many notions.

The National Chemistry Olympiads have been organised since 1984 by chemistry professionals, the Ministry of National Education, the French Chemical Society and the Union of Physics and Chemistry Teachers.

The pedagogical objectives

• To encourage students’ interest in chemistry and to promote the contribution of this discipline to the development of science and technology;
• To encourage the meeting between the educational and professional chemistry communities;
• To remind pupils that chemistry is not only a discipline but also a living science practised in research laboratories and, as such, an industry with many ramifications.

Competition guidelines

Regional examinations are organised from January onwards in all the academies in France as well as in the French educational network abroad. The winners of each regional delegation meet for national tests in April.

There are also two different competitions:

• One, intended for students in Terminale S and STL, is scientific in nature and includes a laboratory handling test and collaborative work.
• The other, open to first and final year students of all series, focuses on communication projects related to chemistry. Students present their work to a jury made up of teachers and industrialists.

In addition to the tremendous work carried out by the candidates, this great success is also the result of the involvement of the different pedagogical actors, first and foremost the Physics / Chemistry teachers and the laboratory technicians.