Béatrice Coron: une fenêtre ouverte sur la créativité
Merci pour cette excellente semaine! Nour Je me suis beaucoup amusée à faire ce projet. J’ai trouvé que c’était bien que l’on n’ait pas besoin de savoir dessiner pour faire quelque chose de joli....
View ArticleThe Brain: Part One
If like me you laugh(ed), but somewhat quizzically, upon first hearing the following joke, you may want to read further. What did the hippocampus say in its retirement speech? Thanks a lot for the...
View ArticleOur Day of Understanding
On Monday, December 19th, the Lycée Français de New York held its first annual Day of Understanding, a celebration dedicated to the many ways in which we identify ourselves. It was the culmination of...
View ArticleLFNY Robotics
The Lycée’s middle-school team competed in the High School Division against a combination of rookie and veteran teams. The engineering challenge was to build a robot that could shoot foam stars into a...
View ArticleSocial Entrepreneurship Competition in San Francisco
Lucie, Audrey, Rémy et Théa, quatre élèves du Lycée Français de New York se sont envolés pour San Francisco le 2 mars dernier pour participer à la finale de l’édition nationale de Startup weekend....
View ArticleEquity, Justice and Media Literacy
On Friday, March 10, 2017, the Lycée welcomed Dr. Olivier Esteves, professor of British Studies at the Université Lille-3 and Sciences-Po Lille, for a special morning program dedicated to media...
View ArticleLa Circonférence divisée par le Diamètre
Qui a dit que les maths ne sont pas amusantes? Tenez, à la mi-mars, avait lieu au Lycée Français de New York la sixième édition de la semaine des mathématiques. Pour être tout à fait exact, c’était la...
View ArticleÉduquer pour lutter contre les préjugés
The necessity of an education rooted in tolerance and understanding is undeniable. For this school and all schools, the challenge is not only to teach humanist principles but also to make them a way...
View ArticleNutrition Week : Les conseils d’une experte
Huguette grew up in France in a family where fresh ingredients and healthy meals were paramount. Her curiosity about different foods and flavours grew as she started traveling the world, first to...
View ArticleEuropean Day of Languages
This year, instead of having several “Languages days”, we decided to focus on one day only. To make the experience more meaningful for the students, with the help of the Cultural Center, we were able...
View ArticleTake It Slow
Jamie, your primary role is as an English Teacher, but you also have been developing and implementing mindfulness at the Lycée for three years now, offering students brief sessions with their peers...
View ArticleWomen Leading the Way
A century ago, tens of thousands of women took to the streets of New York City in what was then the largest rally for women’s suffrage of its kind. Stretching nearly five miles along Fifth Avenue, the...
View ArticleInternational Conference on Mobile Language Learning
People around the world will only be more connected as time goes by, and having a second, third, even fourth language will be in demand. Technology has revolutionized language learning, offering...
View ArticleStart-Up Lycée New York : The Future We Want
This Friday and Saturday at the Lycée Français de New York, ninth graders in the “Be the Change” Parcours took part in the finals of Lycée Start-Up Weekend. It was intense. The adrenaline was high....
View Article8th-grade science students predict the weather, join the March for Climate...
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View ArticleTake a Listen!
Our fourth graders are following their own curiosity, and their ears, in their new podcast series “Mystère et Boule de Gomme“, with support from their teachers and the Media Lab. We can see the sun,...
View Article10th-Grade Students Elect Five Women Writers to the Panthéon
In the same spirit as the Suffragettes project of Mireille Miller, our primary art teacher—which focuses on women who fought for their right to vote—the Lycée’s French department seeks to pay tribute...
View ArticleLycée Honors Hamdi Ulukaya at 2019 Gala
On February 9th, Lycée parents, donors and guests gathered at the Skylight on Vesey, in view of New York City’s Statue of Liberty, for our annual gala. This year’s theme was “La Vie Devant Soi : The...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs, Indefatigable Steward of Our Planet
The history of the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York has been marked by some unforgettable conferences. Many diverse examples come to mind: the physicist Etienne Klein, economists...
View ArticleArabic Language Classes Will Be Offered in the Fall
The Lycée’s World Languages Department is thrilled to announce that starting this fall, we will be offering Arabic as a second language—alongside Spanish, German, Chinese and Italian. Arabic is a...
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