The tutoring association "Les Chèvres" was founded by students in the Specialized Engineering Program (Energy Engineering) at the end of 2022. Members share their skills with an emphasis on solidarity.
"A collaborative approach to creating an environment conducive to collective success" is the credo of the association "Les Chèvres," founded in November 2022. Its goal is to enable all students entering this program from diverse academic backgrounds to progress together at the same pace in order to obtain their degree.
22 sessions in 2022-2023
The association offers regular tutoring sessions: the "Chèvres majors" (senior goats), who are volunteer students, conduct sessions according to the needs of the class. In 2022-2023, 22 sessions were conducted by 10 different senior goats. The average number of students attending during the school year is 19 goats and 8 goats during the internship period (remote).
Each session lasts between 45 minutes and 1 hour 15 minutes, depending on the number of questions asked and exercises to be solved.
Thanks to these sessions, the auditors, nicknamed "les Chèvres" (the Goats), gain a better understanding of the various concepts related to their studies, for example in thermodynamics, mathematics, or electrokinetics.
For their part, the "Chèvres majors" acquire teaching and communication skills.
Promote team spirit
Several events are also organized throughout the year, involving opportunities for discussion and collaboration that promote team spirit.
For example, in the second semester, the association "Les Chèvres" will hold a general knowledge contest called "Question pour un GOAT." This contest aims to stimulate students' academic interest by offering a new and fun event.
As for the goats' snack on Epiphany, this is an event specific to each class, which involves sharing a galette during the lunch break in a friendly atmosphere outside the school setting.
As a result, all students who start the program at different levels finish it with a greater mastery of the subjects taught!
By employing the students themselves to instruct others, without even requiring these young instructors to be much more skilled than the classmates they are teaching, it [the method] stimulates and maintains a spirit of emulation that ensures progress.
- Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Golden Book of Arts et Métiers
Who are the "Goats"?
The members of the office coordinate the organization of tutoring sessions and events. An office of four students is created each year for each new class.
Class of 2022
- Naoki Navas (chairman),
- Etienne Zajaczkowski (Vice President),
- Sahaanaa Yogarajah (Treasurer)
- Hugo Defossez (secretary).
Class of 2023
- Guillaume Teyssier (chairman),
- Morgane Drion (Vice President),
- Anne-Aristie Durel (treasurer)
- Aurianne Lecourt (secretary).
Did you know?
The name of the association Les Chèvres (The Goats) originates from the expression "être une chèvre" (to be a goat), often used in soccer to describe a mediocre player.
The connotation of stupidity was associated with goats as early as 1691 by Jean de la Fontaine in his fable Les deux chèvres (The Two Goats). But the real interest of this name lies in its translation into English! In popular culture, "Goat" or G.O.A.T. means "Greatest of All Time."
The idea for the association is therefore to become, through mutual support, the best in each discipline by breaking down the culture of competition to create true camaraderie through collective effort.
The 2023 goat team: Anne-Aristie, Morgane, Auriane, and Guillaume
