This visit took place in two stages:
- the "team captain", Florence Niedergang, retraced her career, studies, the stages of a research project, the scientific approach and the importance of critical thinking. This presentation was punctuated by questions and brief discussions with the high school students on a wide variety of aspects;
- “speed-meetings” for personalized meetings between high school students and scientists (DECLICS ambassadors), each presenting their background, research topics, etc.: The high school students divided into several groups take turns meeting with the ambassadors for 12 minutes. They ask unfiltered questions, whether on professions or scientific subjects.
Florence Niedergang was accompanied by several members of her research team (researchers, engineer, doctoral students) - Chiara Pompili, Zeyni Mansuroglu, Manon Depierre, Eliette Bonnefoy, Suzanne Faure-Dupuy, Zoé Frémont - but also engineers responsible for platforms, Pierre Bourdoncle (IMAG’IC) and Alain Schmitt (PIME), a teacher-researcher Sandra Guilmeau and researchers Paul Lubrano, Maha Zohra Ladjemi, Florence Gbahou and Claire Desnos.
An enriching experience conducted within the framework of the DECLICS program (Dialogues between researchers and high school students to interest them in the construction of knowledge) which was created by the association Cercle FSER (Schlumberger Foundation for Education and Research) to promote fundamental research, the scientific approach and knowledge of research professions among young people. To do again next year!
