Agathe and Michel, winners of the MT180S regional competition

N e would like to congratulate our 8 doctoral students on their participation and performances: Moustapha ALADJI, Axel CARDAN, Agathe CHAVY, Lechby FRANCOIS, Soushieta JAGADESH, Gina-Laure LAGHOE-NGUEMBE, Michel RAPINSKI, Laure TARCY, Clara ZAREMSKI.

• The Jury Prize was awarded to Michel RAPINSKI, a doctoral student at the LEEISA laboratory, under the supervision of Alain CUERRIER and Damien DAVY.
• The Public Prize was awarded to Agathe CHAVY, a doctoral student at the EPAT Laboratory and the Institut Pasteur, under the supervision of Benoît DE THOISY and Ghislaine PREVOT.
• The Coup de Coeur prize was awarded to Clara ZAREMSKI, a doctoral student at CIRAD, under the supervision of Nadine AMUSANT and Marc DUCOUSSO.

Michel RAPINSKI and Agathe CHAVY represented the University of Guyana at the national semi-finals held in Paris on 5 and 6 April. We congratulate them on having passed this stage honourably. Unfortunately, they were not selected for the national final, which will take place in Paris in June.

If you missed it, you can watch videos of Michel and Agathe, winners of the regional final of the MT180S competition. You can also find Agathe and Michel on the national mt180.fr website, along with the winners from the other universities taking part in the competition.

Many thanks!

We would like to thank all those who helped to make this event a success: the IT Department, the Heritage Department, the President's Office, etc. We would also like to thank the members of the jury as well as the GIS IRISTA and the Canopée des Sciences for their contribution to the preparation of the competition.

Thank you to all the doctoral students who took part in this competition and to their thesis supervisors for their support.

Finally, a big thank you to our sponsors Air Caraïbes, MGEN and Orange for their support and the wonderful gifts they gave to our doctoral students.