Summer schools and high-school visits
© J.Caillet/EPFL
EPFL continued its tradition of bringing high-school students to its campus in the early summer.
The SPE organized four summer schools this year. Two of them – one for MINT students from Lerbermatt high school in Köniz and one on mobile robotics – were week-long programs put together by the SPE and Bern-based high schools. They have been held for several years now and are as popular as ever. Two other summer schools were offered for the first time in 2018: the materials camp, run by the Marvel research program, and the ‘Nature, in code’ week, a programming course for high-school students from French-speaking Switzerland that the SPE set up with the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). We were pleased to see that girls accounted for 70% of the programming class. In addition to these summer schools, high-school classes were able to visit the campus and focus on a cross-disciplinary topic – one example is ‘innovation and entrepreneurship,’ which EPFL is well-placed to discuss. Close to 150 high-school students participated in these summer events.
Links (French only):
https://actus.epfl.ch/news/deux-classes-du-gymnase-de-koniz-en-immersion-a-l-/
https://actus.epfl.ch/news/summer-school-en-robotique-mobile-pour-gymnasiens/
https://actus.epfl.ch/news/nature-in-code-un-sujet-porteur-pour-une-summer-sc/
For more information: spe@epfl.ch