It is an unknown aspect that is gaining ground. At the La Briquerie school complex, foreign languages are gaining ground and this benefits students who are investing in their professional future. To be convinced of this, all you have to do is go to the robotics club, which brings together around twenty high school students of different levels and specialties. This week, this unique club welcomed young people from Austria and Romania. Correspondents to whom the Thionvillois already went at the start of the year and who, in turn, live a week of immersion in Thionville. On the program, there are cultural visits, a morning of team building, but also more technical times, around the creation of robots called to compete this Friday, June 9 at Technobot in Yutz, the robotics challenge for Moselle schools.
Cultural and relational benefits
“It’s the Erasmus program that allowed us to engage in these exchanges, around a unifying project which is the manufacture of robots”, confirms Serafin Sperini, teacher in digital systems. The virtues of these exchanges are multiple. The relational aspect is at the center of the device, since the high school students must exclusively dialogue in English if they want to be understood by Romanians or Austrians and vice versa. “These exchanges induce a very strong enrichment, culturally but also personally. We have seen young people open up completely after their stay abroad,” says Patrick Ludemann, physics and chemistry teacher. “The purpose of the project is openness to others; cooperation and also inclusion because it allows young people whose families cannot afford to travel to discover other horizons. It’s great ! »
Focused on assembling a 750-gram robot, Léo confirms: “Strangers are an amazing experience; it allows us to speak English, to progress at all levels, ”says this high school student in engineering sciences.
Ireland, Italy, Canada…
Other windows open onto the international scene for high school students and this contributes to changing the image of La Briquerie, which still suffers from a lot of clichés. “The European section professional baccalaureate can do their internship in Ireland, Austria, Italy. We are in the process of putting new partnerships in place so that the BTS can do their internship in Italy or Canada, ”says Serafin Sperini. La Briquerie well deserves its Euroscol label which was awarded to it last year.
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