This Thursday, April 26, 2018, will mark the 9th edition of the Cordées de la Réussite Days of Excellence. With the support of the Dijon Regional Education Authority, the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Cluny is participating in this national event through its OPTIM social mobility program.
Inspiring scientific and technical vocations
As part of the 9th edition of the Cordées de la Réussite Excellence Days, subsidized by the Dijon Regional Education Authority, Isabelle DUBAND, a teacher at the Bourguignon Laboratory of Materials and Processes (LaBoMaP) and head of OPTIM, along with her fellow teachers, engineers, and technicians, will use concrete examples to demonstrate all the phases of designing and manufacturing an object. The goal is to raise awareness among young students about engineering professions and, more broadly, about scientific and technological fields.
This year, 20 ninth-grade students from Saint Exupéry Middle School in Mâcon are spending the day in the laboratories and workshops of the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Cluny, discovering the various manufacturing processes involved in creating an object made of different materials.
Surrounded and accompanied by their engineering student mentors, middle school students will be able to see firsthand the practical applications of their middle school math and technology classes. They will even be invited to use CAD (computer-aided design) software and spend a few hours in the shoes of Arts et Métiers engineering students.
OPTIM, what is it?
The Saint Cyr (Matour) and Saint Exupéry (Mâcon) middle schools, and the La Prat’s (Cluny) and Parriat (Montceau-les-Mines) high schools are part of the OPTIM program: 136 secondary school students in the Saône-et-Loire department benefit from weekly tutoring provided by 76 volunteer engineering students.
