Research in the classroom

For the French Association for Education through Research (AFPER), I collaborate with researchers to create research activities for students, from kindergarten to high school. The idea is simple: during an afternoon at the start of the school year, we transform the classroom into a laboratory and allow students to tackle real research challenges, inspired by the work of scientists who directly challenge them through motivating videos.

Each year, we offer a series of varied challenges: exploring the atmospheres of exoplanets, understanding the taste of foods, assessing soil quality, or even thinking about the logistics of delivering a package on the Moon. The goal is for students to go through all the steps of research (state of the art, hypothesis, protocol, result analysis, communication…) in a single afternoon.

In 2026, 66,000 students, from kindergarten to high school, across metropolitan France, the DROM-COM, and the Francophonie, participated in these activities!

This continues research activities that I personally ran in schools during my PhD as part of the Savanturiers program at AFPER. You can learn more about this project here!