Hello! My name is Catherine and I live in France, near Paris. After studying to be a pharmacist, I continued to study science to be able to teach. At first, I taught mathematics and physics for several years, and now I teach biology. It’s exciting, especially with the new discoveries but, students find it difficult. So, to make them love science and learn differently, I created a science workshop in my free time. This allowed us to reflect on various topics concerning health such as alcohol, tobacco, the brain, food, the heart, but also on other current topics like nuclear power plants. They created games, models, wrote reviews to explain in a simple way to their friends what they had discovered. In this way, students became interested in science and some of them became passionate.

One day, when I was looking for new ideas, I met members of the “planet sciences” association who told me about the Rocketry Challenge. Space was a new subject for me because it’s not taught in school. After a difficult year, I was passionate about aeronautics, rockets …. and my students were too!! Some of them pursue higher studies in aeronautics, boys and girls. This workshop has existed for 12 years, and it will continue.

Another thing important to me are sports. I practice skiing, climbing, tennis, cycling and walking. I can’t wait to participate in this space camp with my students. It will be an opportunity to discover a lot of things and to work with others teams. It’s an incredible opportunity to meet teams from other countries and to share experiences with them!