Fête de la Science 2025 in Chile: bringing artificial intelligence into the classroom with Inria Chile
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Changed on 29/09/2025
Inria Chile will again take part in Fête de la Science, bringing science and research in artificial intelligence to students at the Alliance Française schools in the Metropolitan Region. Students and teachers will explore “Intelligences” through talks and live demonstrations on digital sciences and technologies.
“Intelligences”: the central theme of Fête de la Science 2025
From 3 to 13 October 2025, France celebrates Fête de la Science, a nationwide event created in 1991 to bring scientific culture closer to everyone. Over the years it has become a national fixture, attracting close to one million participants each year across 6,000 events—in which Inria plays an active role.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Institut français de Chile is leading the initiative in Chile and, likewise for the fifth year, researchers from Inria Chile will contribute with workshops and talks for students of different levels and ages. In 2025, the theme is “Intelligences”: an invitation to explore the diversity of its forms—human, collective, living and artificial.
Students at the Alliance Française schools in Vitacura and Colina, both in the Metropolitan Region, will discover—through talks, workshops and demonstrations—how artificial intelligence is applied to concrete problems and how research opens new questions and future pathways.
Inria Chile programme
The power of working together
An interactive talk on how collaborative work drives scientific and technological projects with real impact for people—connecting science, data and prototypes to solve concrete problems and spark scientific curiosity.
- 🗓️ Day: Wednesday, 8 October
- ⏰ Time: 11:45
- 🗣️ With: Matías Neto, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Luis Pasteur 5418, Vitacura
Artificial intelligence for early wildfire alerts: the AirWARD platform
AirWARD, a project developed by Inria Chile together with the startup Drovid, integrates artificial intelligence models with drone imagery to detect fire and smoke early, stream live information and support timely decision-making during wildfires.
- 🗓️ Day: Thursday, 9 October
- ⏰ Time: 10:00
- 🗣️ With: Rayner de Ruyt, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Chamisero 14397, Colina
- 🗓️ Day: Friday, 10 October
- ⏰ Time: 09:20 and 10:10
- 🗣️ With: Rayner de Ruyt, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Luis Pasteur 5418, Vitacura
Neural networks and images
How algorithms “see”: from image pre-processing to classification with neural networks, using clear examples that connect basic concepts in computer vision and machine learning.
- 🗓️ Day: Friday, 10 October
- ⏰ Time: 11:00
- 🗣️ With: Alan Contreras, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Luis Pasteur 5418, Vitacura
Artificial intelligence and genomics to understand the oceans and climate change
OcéanIA is an Inria initiative that applies artificial intelligence and mathematical models to study the ocean and its role in the climate. This session uses accessible examples to show how genomic and environmental data can be combined to observe marine biodiversity and detect signals of climate change—explaining why this knowledge is useful for society.
- 🗓️ Day: Friday, 10 October
- ⏰ Time: 11:00
- 🗣️ With: Luis Valenzuela, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Luis Pasteur 5418, Vitacura
Engineering artificial intelligence and its applications
From idea to prototype in intelligent systems: design criteria, robustness and evaluation—principles that connect research and applications to solve complex problems with a responsible approach.
- 🗓️ Day: Monday, 13 October
- ⏰ Time: 11:15
- 🗣️ With: Paul Escapil-Inchauspé, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Chamisero 14397, Colina
Program a robot with open-source software: discover Poppy
A hands-on demonstration with Poppy (an educational robotics platform). Students will learn the basics of programming and robotics using open tools and 3D-printed parts—an accessible way to introduce computational thinking.
- 🗓️ Day: Tuesday, 14 October
- ⏰ Time: 12:00
- 🗣️ With: Rayner de Ruyt, Inria Chile
- 👥 Audience: School community (secondary education)
- 📍 Venue: Colegio Alianza Francesa, Av. Luis Pasteur 5418, Vitacura