Schlumberger Riboud Product Center—Colleges et Lycées

Through the SEED program, Schlumberger employees help provide access to technological and knowledge resources for students and teachers in disadvantaged communities where Schlumberger people live and work.

The following are examples of activities led by SRPC employees:

• Garges les Gonesses

  SRPC SEED volunteers provided technical support to a school in a Parisian suburb. The objective was to train the students and the teachers on how to present their work using IT tools in order to spread their message more efficiently.

  The school had sent one class to Morocco to work with social organizations there. When the students came back to France they had to communicate their experience to a large number of people. SRPC volunteers helped them in creating a newspaper, presentations, and DVDs.

• Les Ulis

  In Les Ulis, another Parisian suburb, volunteers launched a science-based mentoring initiative. Ten experienced researchers from SRPC coached a group of 28 students (14 years old) to develop scientific experiments. The work consisted in understanding the physical phenomena, making a setup to show the experiment to other pupils, and designing a poster providing the explanations. This project exposed the pupils to science and helped them realize how useful it could be in their everyday life.

• Lab in a Lorry

  In March 2006 the "Lab in a Lorry" visited our partner schools. For more information see www.labinalorry.org.uk.

• Other

  SRPC also contributes to scienceeducation in schools through the C'est Genial foundation. For more information, visit www.cgenial.org.

  Our permanent exhibition in the science museum in La Villette provides an introduction to oil and gas exploration and production.