On 8 March, CESI, ESIGELEC, ESITech, Esitpa, and Rouen INSA, in partnership with the Education Authority, ONISEP, the Regional Directorate for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the “Elles bougent” association, held a lecture and discussion session at the CESI to promote engineering as a career for women. It was attended by more than 200 students from 9 local secondary schools.

Organised to mark International Women’s Day, the event included first-hand accounts from engineering students and graduates reflecting the different study routes available, along with speeches from the guest of honour, Doralie Jourdain, Manager of Normandie Web Xperts.

Erlic Jean-Marie Lantonkpode, who graduated from ESIGELEC in the class of 2015, set the lecture hall alight with a demonstration of his drone which is remotely controlled by body movements (or how to transform the human body into a remote control) using a Kinect, a project he carried out during his internship as a technician in the school’s Embedded Systems and Instrumentation department.


The event was opened by Christine Dispa, Regional Director of the CESI, and this was followed by speeches by Marion Perrier, Regional Director for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, Hugues Demoulin, Rouen Education Authority’s Officer for Gender Equality, and Christophe Martin, Regional Officer for Elles Bougent Normandie.

The conference was one of the “Road to Citizenship” events organised as a part of an initiative undertaken by the Rouen Normandie Metropolitan Authority and UNESCO clubs.

Contacts :
Catherine Duval,  International Work Placements Coordinator, catherine.duval@esigelec.fr
Annick Fouquet, Events Communication Manager, annick.fouquet@esigelec.fr

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