Author: Camille Barre, Science Teacher

Camille Barré arrived at the Lycée Français de New York in 2012. She is an Earth and Life Science teacher. After spending her childhood and adolescence in Tchad, Reunion and Guadeloupe, Camille moved to Paris to study biology at the Ecole d’Ingénieur en Agronomie de Paris-Grignon, receiving a graduate degree (DEA) in biology, diversity and adaptation of cultivated plants. She then moved to Brittany to study the impact of farming on water quality, writing a doctoral thesis at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Rennes. Three years after completing her thesis, she returned to Paris and founded an organization to distribute local organic vegetables.

Students Reflect on the Future of our Planet

The Lycée’s Science Department is guiding students in ninth to twelfth grade through a “Convention Lycéenne pour le Climat,” a high-school wide project designed to help them engage in issues of climate change and work towards a more sustainable future.

8th-Grade Science Students Predict the Weather

On Friday, March 15, several Lycée students joined the protests in front of the United Nations as part of the global strike for climate change. The movement started last year thanks to a 16-year-old girl in Sweden, Greta Thunberg, who began skipping class on Fridays to instead talk to policy