The educational outreach project ‘adopt a float’ offers schoolchildren the opportunity to adopt a Bio-Argo profiling float, follow its journey across the ocean and interpret the data it collects. With the support of their teachers, the students share oceanographic research with the scientists, develop activities focused on the observations from their profiling float and, more generally, activities dedicated to oceanography.
During the second edition of the annual ‘adopt a float’ meeting, the students from middle schools Paul Arène (Peymeinade), André Maurois (Menton), Jean Cocteau (Beaulieu-sur-mer), école Française du Cap (South Africa) and from Pediatrics Department of Hospital Archet II (Nice) presented the work they have elaborated over the past school year (2014-2015). This day was full of exchanges among the participants and enabled the students to meet the scientists and share experiences with the other schoolchildren participating to the project.
Carolyn Scheurle, and Martina Ferraris - Outreach service - Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche (OOV)
› More: Discover the work of the schoolchildren on the ocean voyagers blogand the video of the eco-delegates from the college Paul Arene
