For the younger generation

MARVEL proposes activities for the young generation, such as summer camps, activities proposed in school as well as activities during open doors or events for the general public.

For high school students

Since 2018, MARVEL is organizing a summer camp for high school students, Des atomes aux ordinateurs, à la découverte de la programmation scientifique, where they can learn the basics of programming to study materials, with half of the seats reserved for young women. With the support of the EPFL high-performance computing team SCITAS, and led by Michele Ceriotti until 2024 and by Anirudh Raju Natarajan from 2025, a team of six MARVEL volunteer postdocs and PhD students lead the students through a basic introduction to Python to applied exercises on topics such as the cellular automaton, molecular dynamics and machine learning. During the week, the students have also visits to laboratories and on the EPFL campus. As feedback, the participants enjoy attending the camp and are motivated to learn more about the topic. They appreciate the interaction with the teaching assistants and their help. They value the opportunity to apply programming to real physical phenomena.

In schools

MARVEL participates to Thematic day for high school students organised by EPFL, e.g.

These are great opportunities for MARVEL researchers to share about their research and to learn to adapt their message to non specialists. On the other side, the students can discover more about the topics such as physics, chemistry, materials science and computational research within their own four walls with conferences and feature demonstrations.

For girls and young women

To awake the interest of girls and young women for scientific careers, MARVEL is a partner to special events organized at EPFL and in Switzerland, for girls only or with half of the seats for girls.

For the public at large

MARVEL takes all the opportunities to showcase its research, sharing and explaining it to the public. MARVEL is used to present a stand with 3D movies and fun experiments to show how novel materials are created by computational design at events such as