Last Thursday and Friday, the MIO had the pleasure of hosting the first "Prado Reef Classes" organised by the City of Marseille in the Grand Amphi of the Mediterranean Building, made available by OSU Pythéas. Six different classes, working in pairs for half a day with their supervisors (teachers and environmental educators from the City of Marseille's Sea and Coastal Department), presented their creations inspired by the Prado artificial reefs. Selected on the basis of a project, nearly 200 pupils from CM1, CM2 and a class of 4ème with an Environment option, presented their work for the year 2022. Films, a quiz card game, a game of goose, posters, models, a dance show and a song brightened up the weekend. Several colleagues from the MIO, Mireille Harmelin , Sandrine Ruitton and Thomas Changeux, presented their work as scientists, their missions concerning artificial reefs and took part in the children's question and answer session.
Thank you to the many people involved in this promising project for budding oceanographers! In fact, a current MIO trainee came to talk to the pupils about his participation in an earlier version of the Prado Reef Classes when he was at primary school, as part of his passion for the sea.