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Drawing inspiration from the robotic tasks that will be faced at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ during installation and maintenance activities, the annual °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Robots contest challenges students of different ages to imagine, design, and program Lego robots. Launched in 2012 by Agence Iter France and the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization, the program is growing every year.

As Newsline reported last June, the 2017 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Robots competition involved 600 students from 27 schools organized into 46 teams. This year, the competition will expand to about 70 teams and also offer a new program—°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Robots Junior—for primary age students in 4th, 5th and 6th grade (12 additional teams). And who better to help design the new junior competition than 14-year-old Camylle Jordan, who spent one week as an intern in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ's Remote Handling Section.

According to Jean-Pierre Martins, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ remote handling engineer who supervised Camylle, "she solved every issue she encountered in a pragmatic manner." In addition to becoming familiar with the complexity of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project, Camylle had to adapt her programming skills to work with a Thymio robot and to learn the basics of SolidWorks ®, a Computer Assisted Design tool.

The young intern left the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ engineers impressed with her efficiency and confidence. She successfully tested the proposed curriculum and competition design, proactively suggesting and demonstrating ways to improve the robot mission. She participated in the official kick-off meeting of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Robots Junior challenge, interacting with people from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, Agence Iter France and the French education system (Education Nationale). And she found time to fit in a tour of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ worksite and virtual reality room, and to give an on-camera Facebook interview to student journalists.

Most importantly, she documented her progress systematically, keeping a logbook of written records, photos, and videos, to ensure the contribution of her workweek at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ would not be lost.