Köln 2023

Nine students from the MELEC final year left from Sunday 22 to Saturday 28 January as part of a Franco-German exchange with the Werner Von Siemens high school in Köln 

Two teachers of EPIL’s school , Mrs RIGA-AUZEPY and Mr LOUAGE, supervised this outing. The programme included practical work in the morning on equipment, Siemens and in the afternoon, visit of monuments like the cathedral, called “DOM” by the Germans, the different districts of the city, the training centre of the Deutsche Bahn (the German railway), the chocolate museum of which the students particularly remember the chocolate fountain.

There was a lot of exchange with the German high school students. We were also able to discover the talents of all our pupils in a challenge with different events like archery, games of reflection, skill games..

Our students were particularly pleased with the exchange and learned a lot about German teaching methods and greatly appreciated the wealth of industrial equipment available to them, which allowed them to discover programming on automata that they are not used to encountering.

This week was a real success and the German colleagues have already proposed a next meeting in October 2023.

Michaël LOUAGE
Electrical engineering teacher