On December 9, 2021, the Henri Marriat high school in Montceau-les-Mines welcomed Isabelle Duband, a teacher at theCluny campusand equal opportunities and gender diversity officer, along with her team of professionals and Arts et Métiers students. A look back at the latest edition of "Engineering and Technical Day 2021," part of the Cordées de la Réussite program, in which Arts et Métiers has participated since 2008.
The OPTIM Success Program is a program aimed at students from low-income backgrounds. Its objectives are to increase young people's ambition and academic success, help them develop their career plans, and broaden their horizons.
The program takes the form of tutoring for students in grades 8 through 12, on the one hand, and one-off activities, on the other. Engineering and Technology Day is an event designed to raise awareness of scientific and technical careers, attended by professionals.
Isabelle DUBAND and Amélie LAURIAU, physics and chemistry teachers at Henri Parriat High School, brought together professionals from theHaulotte andAlstom companies in Le Creusot, as well as four students in Grande Ecole Engineering Programme on the Cluny campus. During roundtable discussions, the speakers shared their educational and professional backgrounds while offering advice to students in grades 10 through 12.
The aim of this day is to contribute to changing attitudes regarding the place of women in scientific and technological careers, emphasizes Isabelle Duband.
To reinforce this objective and complement this initiative, high school students were given the opportunity to visit the exhibition "La science Taille XX Elles" (Science SizeXX Women), which presents twenty portraits of female scientists in order to raise their profile. The exhibition was organized by the association Femmes & Sciences, the CNRS, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Arts et Métiers also Arts et Métiers an exhibition entitled "Technologie, nom féminin" (Technology, feminine noun), which has the same objectives.
