A scientific education focused on complex systems.

• Advanced technical courses on designing, integrating and deploying systems in polar conditions.
• Fieldwork and first-hand discovery of the constraints specific to Arctic environments.
• Courses taken:
  • AE-343 – Arctic Renewable Energy Systems : design and integration of renewable energy systems adapted to Arctic constraints, with a project management approach.
  • AE-342 – Arctic Energy Meteorology : study of the weather conditions that shape solar and wind potential, through measurements, forecasts and fieldwork.
  • AT-334 – Arctic Marine Measurements : marine measurements and operations in the Arctic: remote sensing, robotics, drones and underwater vehicles, with hands-on practice in the field.
• These courses complete a systems engineering approach applied to extreme environments.
• This experience will be documented gradually in the blog.

• Risks in New Aviation and New Energy programme: 21 hours of lectures, 18 hours of cultural activities and 21 hours of experimentation.
• Speakers from Beihang, ENAC, Paris-Saclay, Politecnico di Milano, TU Dresden, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Kansai Airports and Boeing.
• Artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance and digital twins applied to aviation; drone operations.
• Exchanges with academic and industrial partners: Politecnico di Milano, Paris-Saclay and Dassault Systèmes.
• Training in drone-based rendering and 3D model generation.
• Cultural immersion: hands-on workshops, archaeological visits to Liangzhu and the Cainiao Group technology hub.
• Intercultural exchanges with 80 students from 8 countries.

Gap year – September 2025 – July 2026

Semester 8 – Second year – SITA, February 2025 – June 2025

• Language theory and compilers.
• Avionics and aeronautical networks.
• Event-driven programming and human-machine interface design.
• Object-oriented programming and project management.
• Air transport applied project: analysing ADS-B antenna data with Java, MongoDB and a graphical interface to visualise the data on a map.
• Air traffic management/control concepts: SESAR, NextGen, ASAS and economics.
• Entrepreneurship minor: a cargo drone project for extreme regions, with a use case supporting French Polar Institute missions in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Pitch, business plan and intellectual property.

Semester 7 – Second year – SITA, September 2024 – January 2025

• Computer architecture and operating systems.
• Communication networks and interconnections.
• System and parallel programming.
• Artificial intelligence and algorithmic complexity.
• IT security and ATC simulations.
• OCaml/AI project: automatic crossword grid generation.
• Drones minor: UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems and autonomy, conceptual aircraft design, airspace integration and certification, embedded hardware and software. Regulation project: drone rescue in the Pyrenees, using SORA and ConOps.

Semester 6 – First year – Common core, February 2024 – June 2024

• Air operations and avionics: flight mechanics, cockpit environment, autonomous navigation and control systems.
• ATM and telecommunications: air traffic control simulation, waves and propagation, surveillance and ATM systems.
• Mathematics: statistics and combinatorial optimisation.
• Computing: database management systems, web applications, networks and communications.
• Group project: a website to track sugar consumption.
• Professional skills: requirements engineering, ergonomics, international civil aviation bodies and air transport economics.

Semester 5 – First year – Common core, September 2023 – January 2024

• Air operations and safety: choosing an aircraft for its mission, solid mechanics, principles of flight.
• Air traffic management: general meteorology, air traffic regulations and approach procedures.
• Avionics and telecommunications: navigation, conventional radio navigation, signal processing and satellite navigation.
• Mathematics: complex analysis, measure theory, probability and numerical analysis.
• Computing: programming, algorithms, architecture, operating systems, Unix and shells.
• Group project in Python: a car race simulation.
• Professional skills: English, general economics, project management and physical education.

Activities and student life

• Study monitoring lead at the ENVOL junior enterprise.
• President of the improvisation workshop: organising shows, communication, team management.
• Activities with international students: improvisation, a debate club and the Buddy Program.
• Peer tutoring programme between students and alumni.
• CSR lead for a student union slate: organised an improvisation show to raise awareness of sexist and sexual violence.
• Two entries in the pitch competition (jury’s favourite) and two participations in the Fly Impulse hackathon.
• Organised the alumni careers conference for engineering students, in charge of speaker invitations (LinkedIn post).
• Visit to Dassault Aviation (LinkedIn post).
• Took part in Les États de l’air (LinkedIn post).
• Gap year 2025 – 2026: why I dared to pause my studies (LinkedIn post).
• Chinese classes in the first semester of the first year.

• Core mathematics: normed vector spaces and Euclidean endomorphisms.
• Applied mathematics: numerical ODEs and linear algebra.
• Data science, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.
• Industrial engineering: operations research and systems engineering.
• Projects: a money box with automatic coin detection, a neural network for image recognition and a mathematical analysis of the dog curve (tractrix).

• Host family at weekends, excellence boarding school during the week.
• Class delegate.
• Practised windsurfing, catamaran sailing, surfing and dinghy sailing.
• Got my level 1 scuba diving certificate.
• Theatre workshop, performing the play Yo té pou nou sé, about historical figures of the French West Indies.
• Guadeloupean Creole classes.
• Semester 3 specialisation: majors in mathematics and physics; minors in computing and ecology-geology.
• Project: a flashcard app in Python.

• Workshops in sustainable development and technology entrepreneurship.
• Designed a sustainable city model in five days, within a group of fifteen students from North America, South America and Europe.
• Took a leading role in how the group worked: collecting ideas on a wall board open to everyone, setting up themed subgroups with a reporter to present progress, and regular plenary updates on each member’s work.
• Lesson learned: cultural diversity enriches ideas, and solutions to complex problems benefit from structured group work and each member’s creativity.
• Elected best participant.
• Awarded two scholarships for future studies at Polytechnique Montréal.

• Specialities in the penultimate year (4 hours a week each): mathematics, physics-chemistry and life and earth sciences.
• In the final year (6 hours a week each): mathematics and physics-chemistry.
• Took part in the Mathematics Olympiads in the penultimate year.
• Options:
  • Advanced mathematics in the final year (3 hours a week).
  • European section in English: English-speaking culture and mathematics taught by a British teacher.
• English practice:
  • Weekly debate club run by American speakers, from the first year to the final year.
  • Citizenship debate days in English at the Pierre Mendès France high school in Montpellier (2019 and 2020).
• Commitments:
  • Student representative: class delegate from the first year to the final year, eco-delegate in the penultimate year.
  • Member of the student council, the school board and the educational, health and safety, health and citizenship education, and catering committees.
  • Organised and moderated around ten meetings, splitting projects into subgroups and reporting back to the whole group in plenary sessions, in the amphitheatre or remotely.
  • Member of the students’ house (Maison des Lycéens).
  • Member of the Jeunes et Citoyens club: introduction to law and legal careers, with discussions on the rights of minorities, women and children.
  • Charity projects in the final year: toy, food and essential goods collections for humanitarian causes; a Women’s Rights week (conferences, themed days, a film screening, portraits of women); a rose sale for Valentine’s Day.
  • Volunteered with the Secours Populaire Français charity, 2016 to 2018 and again in 2020.
• Two years of theatre, performing the play Rouge by Emmanuel Darley and Maïanne Barthès.

• Started learning English and German.
• Studied Latin throughout middle school.
• Volunteered with the Secours Populaire Français charity, from 2016 to 2018.
• Language exchange in Freiburg, Germany, hosted by a pen friend.
• Cultural and historical trip to Munich, Germany.
• National brevet diploma with highest honours (820/800).