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In June 2020, École polytechnique will welcome 300 teenagers volunteering to do their Service national universel (SNU), an initiative in line with l’X’s core values and its expertise in personal development and military training.
L’X's priorities for 2020 are part of its strategy of asserting itself as a world-class institution within the broader framework of Institut Polytechnique de Paris.The School aims to provide itself with the means to fulfill its ambitions while preserving its singularity, linked to its historic military roots.
Two teams of students from l’X ranked respectively 1st and 4th at the prestigious Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC) 2019-2020 organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The School thus bagged a gold and a silver medal for the first time ever and qualified for the ACM-ICPC world finals in Moscow.
In June 2019, École polytechnique made five bold commitents to ensure its teams, students, professors and researchers would be directly exposed to this major challenge for the future. Six months after, outstanding progress has been made in all of these five projects.
École polytechnique paid tribute to the military values at the heart of its mission to serve the Homeland, Science and Glory during a ceremony for the celebration of Sainte Barbe, l'X's holy patroness.
Almost 800 high secondary school pupils mainly from underprivileged backgrounds and rural areas were greeted at École Polytechnique on November 30 for an event organized with Les Entretiens de l’Excellence to promote social diversity and ensure equal opportunity.
The collective scientific student project "Destiny", carried out within the Student Space Center of l'X, was selected after the presentation made by students in ESA’s ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, in November 2018, by the REXUS/BEXUS program to be flown on a stratospheric balloon in October 2019.
On November 8, students of École Polytechnique rekindled the flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe. On November 11, they also participated in the commemorations alongside the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
Organized during the Science Fair, the first École Polytechnique Open Day took place on Saturday, October 12. More than 2000 visitors were present for this 1st edition.
In 2015, 28-year-old Nicolas Plain (X2011) founded the association "En l'Air pour la Terre" (Fly for the Earth), to raise awareness among different actors and leaders in the field by flying them over the Alps, one of the regions most affected by global warming, in a two-seater paraglider which is also a veritable flying science laboratory.
From September 8 to 26, students of the 2019 class of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program participated in their personal development and military training at the military camp of La Courtine. Find what it is like to spend a day with them.
On Saturday October 12th, École Polytechnique will welcome the general public for the annual Science Fair, with a special focus this year on the school’s 225th anniversary. Researchers will present their work and scientific progress from the research center’s 23 laboratories.
Patrick Drahi (l'X alumnus), CEO and Founder of Altice, Eric Labaye, President of École Polytechnique and Jean-Bernard Lartigue, Executive Director of the École Polytechnique Foundation, inaugurated on September 18th the new extension of the La Fibre Entrepreneur – Drahi - X Novation Center.
L'X will hold an open house on Saturday, October 12. The perfect opportunity to discover the school’s training programs, research laboratories and start-ups.
