Voltaire High School– Projects on Sustainable Development 2021 – 2023
During the months of March to May in 2021, 2022 and 2023, our team of students and collaborators at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) collaborated with Mr. Claude Niang, a geography teacher at Voltaire High School in Geneva. Specifically, with three of his 2nd-year classes.
The objective of this collaboration was first to make the high school students aware of the issues at stake regarding sustainable development in different domains, and next to allow them to discover the innovative approaches of the students at EPFL on the theme of sustainability.
To do this, different subjects coming from diverse domains were proposed to the students by the team at EPFL, who also coached the students during the realization of the task to be accomplished.
The work consisted of searching for reliable information on the theme, such as a description of the main actors, issues at stake and plans, and its anchoring in sustainable development. Afterward, the high school students presented their work in class and in front of their coach from EPFL, who attended online.
During the preparatory work, the high school students discovered positive and negative points, as well as the utility of the chosen theme. This collaboration gave rise to interesting encounters and discoveries, as well as broader and more in-depth knowledge for the students.
Generally, the EPFL team observed that the students from Voltaire High School were motivated by the subjects proposed and that perhaps this exchange would instill in them an interest to study at EPFL.
Voltaire High School– EXP’EAU 2018
During the 2017-2018 school year, our team collaborated with the Voltaire High School in Geneva for the supervision of posters and quizzes produced by three 2nd year classes around three themes related to water: environment, society, and economy. A delegation from our team was present at their EXP’EAU 2018 – an event organized by the Voltaire High School in March 2018, around the theme of water. In this context, our team offered two workshops: an experiment whose goal was to demonstrate how to make water potable and a puzzle game about water supply.
The students of Voltaire High School produced the following video on the subject of water, in which our collaborator Francesco Pennacchio is interviewed:
ERACOM – Development of the website
In June 2016, we collaborated with ERACOM, the French-speaking School of Arts and Communication. As part of the end-of-year work, a third year class was asked to create our association’s website. To do this, members of the association participated as an examining board to assess the sites presented by the candidates and choose the best for our association.