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- The Conquest of the West
- The Brand Image of Arts et Métiers in the US is yet to be built
- AFAM Silicon Valley chapter dinner in June '09
- AFAM to collaborate with ParisTech Polytechnique USA
- Patrick Corsi completes visit to Virginia Tech in March '09
- Arts et Métiers ParisTech Entrepreneurship study tour
- Entrepreneurship study tour report
- AFAM at AAGEF NYC meeting
- AFAM Silicon Valley 2010 holiday dinner
- AFAM joins AAGEF
- Arts et Métiers - UC Berkeley partnership
- Arts et Métiers ParisTech awards first Doctorates Honoris Causa
- Website rev: request for inputs
- American Friends AM on TV !
- AFAM Silicon Valley 2011 summer dinner
- Renewable Energy Masters
- Soirée Grandes Ecoles - 2011
- Soirée Grandes Ecoles - Dec 1, 2011
- Meet the new Arts et Metiers ParisTech US Representative
- Next AFAM event: Galettes des rois on Saturday January 7th, 2012
- Galettes des Rois on January 7
- Strategic Visit to Top American Universities
- Reception at the San Francisco French Consulate
- Networking Event: Soirée Grandes Ecoles - ParisTech Alumni & ...
- Networking Event: Soirée Grandes Ecoles - May 17, 2012
- Picnic in Synnyvale, CA - July 21, 2012
- Networking Event: Soirée Grandes Ecoles - September 20, 2012
- French Alumi Association Happy Hours
- Thomas Ferre, A&M alumni and AFAM board member - July 2011
- La Soirée, The only French-American Gastronomy & Wine Show of the Bay Area
- Networking Event: Soirée Grandes Ecoles - September 20, 2012
- Interview of Audren Cloitre - L'étudiant.fr
- Meet’n’Learn concept - November 28, 2012
- Networking Event: Soirée Grandes Ecoles - December 13, 2012
- Wine & Cheese – December 5th – Stanford University
- Galette des rois 2013
- Meet the new Arts et Métiers ParisTech US Representative
- Job Alert
- Internship Experience with Silver Bait LLC
- Thank You 2012 Donors
- AFAM Member Interview: April
- AFAM Member Interview: May
- French Alumni Soiree with Fleur Pellerin & Romain Serman
- Soiree Grandes Ecoles- A Success!
- Massive Open Online Courses
- Safran signs research agreement with ENSAM & Caltech
- AFAM Newsletter
- AFAM Member Interview: October
- Grand Reopening Two Labs in Paris
- Karting race in San Francisco
- AFAM Member Interview: April 2014
- Galette 2014 San Francisco
- Seminaire Innovation et entrepreuneuriat 2014
- MeetUp in New York City
- AFAM Member Interview: May 2014
- Gadz'Arts Diner in Houston
- AFAM Member Interview: June 2014
- AFAM Member Interview: September 2014
- New Arts et Métiers Students in US Graduate Program
- Gadz'Arts welcome in Houston
- Mission in Texas
- Gadz'Art Welcome in Berkeley
- Mission in France
- New York Gadz'Arts Diner
- Arts et Métiers ParisTech hosts an American delegation
- Diner Gadz'Arts in Houston
- Galette des Rois in San Francisco
- Forum France-Atlanta
- Paris' Attacks
- Arts et Métiers Students in US Universities
- 2017 Arts et Metiers Community Hightlights
- French Alumni Community Gets Together for the Galette des Rois
- AFAM Member Interview - February 2018
- First gathering for the new 2018 for gadzarts in New York
- Spring Afterwork event organized by AAGEF - NY Chapter
- Berkeley Crêpe Party
- First May Gatherings for Gadzart's West Coast and Central groups
- Gadz'Arts West Coast Pool and BBQ Party - Saratoga, CA
- Meet JB Commans (Li 203), new East Coast Group President
- June 10th - AAGEF Regatta - NYC
- Texas A&M-ENSAM International Workshop on Smart Manufacturing for the Factory of the Future
- Meet the new Chicago representative Laurène Rokvam (Bo.210)
- Interview with Professors Mohamed El Mansori and Satish Bukkaptnam, Co-Directors of TEES-ENSAM Cluster
- Rooftop Potluck Notes by Jean-Baptiste Commans, East Coast Group President
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Mattia Pelissou (Li 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Robert Gan (Bo 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Louis du Chassin (Li 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Jean Hack (Li 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Pierre-Axel Cappe (Ai 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Jordan Sihno Mbeleg (Li 216)
- Notes from the School Visit (by Albina, AFAM's Community Manager)
- AFAM Strategy off-site
- Meet our Detroit representative Xavier Ovize (Cl. 189)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Ariel Cohen Codar (Ai. 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Maurice Lubetzki (Ch. 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Louis Mercie (Ai 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Myriam Amour (Li 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Grégoire Magdelaine (Ch 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Antoine Laurent (Li 216)
- Meet our Parcours US Students - Louis Renaux (Cl 216)
- Arts et Métiers in China - Shanghai Congress 2019
- Meet our Georgia Tech students - Fanny, Nicolas and Vincent!
- Student Trip to LA and Silicon Valley
- Meet our Georgia Tech students - Nicolas Giffard (An 215) and Guillaume Migeon (Ai 215)!
- December Gadz'Arts gathering in Houston
- First months at UC Berkeley - notes by Louis Renaux (Cl 216)
- Georgia Tech and Atlanta Chronicles by Alexis Cassier (Me 215) - Part 1
- Interview with Pierre-Edouard Brasseur (Li 208), a newbie in SF
- February Gadz Gatherings - Atlanta, NYC and SF
- Georgia Tech and Atlanta Chronicles by Alexis Cassier (Me 215) - Part 2
- Meet our Community - Basma Aiouche (Cl 214)
- Meet our Community - Fanny Thublier (Li 209)
- Meet our Community - Soazig Kaam (Bo 209)
- Meet our Community - Mathilde Deveraux (Bo 211)
- Meet our Community - Anne-Perrine Avrin (Bo 208)
- Gadz'arts Happy Hour - Boston
- Gadz'Arts on a boat: the 2019 AAGEF Regatta
- When I was a J1 intern.... Small Stories Make Big History
- Shasta Mentor of the Year
- Welcome Parcours US students!
- AAGEF Fall afterwork 2019 (by Jean-Baptiste Commans)
- Food for Thought - Interview with Jérémy Berros (Li 206)
- Food for Thought - Interview with Guilhem Bau (Cl 215)
- Paying tribute to Louis Magne (An 130)
- Food for Thought - Interview with Pierre-Edouard Brasseur (Li 208)
- Being Grateful....thank you from beneficiaries of Louis Magne grant
- Our first event co-organized with French Founders and hosted by Bank of the West took place in Palo Alto
- On the Road Notes - visiting Arts et Métiers campuses (By Albina - AFAM Community Manager)
- Food for Thought - Interview with Jean Prévot (Ch 98), Danone Manifesto Ventures
- Houston Gadz'arts group and AM² Transatlantic partnership
- Food for Thought - Interview with Florian Héraud (Bo 215)
- Looking back and sharing the most significant moments of 2019
- First time together for Galette des Rois to celebrate Epiphany - Atlanta
- Why consulting?... replies François Thery (Li 96)
- Why Consulting? - replies Maxime Crépin (Bo 210), Consultant at Bain and Company, SF
- French American Innovation Days (FAID) conference on Smart Manufacturing and AI for Industry 4.0 took place in College Station, TX
- Winter Gadz apero in NYC
- "What does a baker and a consultant have in common?" - replies Claude Leglise (An 74) for our "Why Consulting?" interview series
- AFAM elections 2020! Vote, participate and become a board member!
- Aper’s Gadz Virtuel - online across the US, March 31st
- Why consulting?... replies Cyprien Bastide (Bo 214), consultant at OM Partners, for our interview series
- What next for American Friends of Arts et Metiers? - note from a candidate for AFAM CEO position Xavier Wartelle (Li 82)
- New AFAM Team has been elected!
- "People and Robots" #1 - interview with Thomas Gurriet (Cl 212)
- Why consulting?... replies Adrien Monvoisin (Cl 204), consultant at Deloitte
- "People and Robots" #2 - interview with Ryan Lober (Class 212), co-founder and CEO at Fuzzy Logic Robotics
- "People and Robots" #3 - interview with Audren Cloitre (An 208), a Research Scientist at Analog Garage, a branch of Analog Devices Inc.
- Remote internship: what's your point of view?
- Financial Engineering: building the new world. Interview #1 with Sacha Ghebali (Bo 211), Product Manager at Kaiko
- Financial Engineering: Interview #2 with Jean-Rodolphe Guis (Bo 99), Deputy Head inspection Générale Global Markets & ALMT, BNP Paribas
- Financial Engineering: Interview #3 with with Imane Sanhaji (Cl 211)
- First meeting in NYC after the lock down
- Financial Engineering: interview #4 with Jean-Baptiste Commans (Li 203), Strategist and Data Scientist at JPMorgan Chase and Co
- AFAM in the press: Inside Magazine
- Students' testimonials: mentorship and Shasta
- What is mentorship?
- Réveille ton étoile - Live Seminaire organized by la SOCE, East Coast group and gadzarts group in Canada
- Gadz stories #1 - Aerospace- took place on November 13th
- Welcome chat Parcours US took place in November 2020
- Xavier Wartelle (Li 82), AFAM CEO - portrait published in Arts et Metiers Magazine (November 2020)
- Gadzarts sharing: International Thursdays held online for Lille students were very successful
- 2020 in review
- New Délégué Général (DG) Amériques
- Shasta success story: Sébastien Sequeira (Bo 216) - intern at Tesla
- AFAM participation in International Week organized by Lille BREI
- “Why remote internships could be a real opportunity” - with Xavier Wartelle, Co-founder and CEO of Avatar Medical, Founding partner at big bang factory and AFAM CEO
- Serving businesses and communities - Interview #1 with Damien Blanc (Ai 208), project engineer at homemuse.io
- March online meeting with Arts et Metiers students
- “Ad astra: dreams and reality of aerospace engineering” - interview # 1 with Jean-Christophe Boulon (Me 213)
- Spring gadz apero took place on April 8th
- "Ad astra" dreams and reality of aerospace engineering" - Interview # 2 with Laurène Rokvam (Bo 210)
- Gadz stories #2 (Aerospace) with Hugo Wagner (Bo 211)
- AFAM participated in SOCE Open House event on May 20th
- May Shasta meeting with A&M students
- Welcome to the US! Parcours US/GTL students' welcome meeting was a success!
- NYC-based gadz viewing party took place on June 2021
- Published in Arts & Métiers Magazine #428 (June-July 2021) - interview with Guénaël Prince (Cl 201)
- Giving back to your community: Michel Vulpillat ( Ch 183), AFAM Southern California representative
- Giving back to your community: Interview with Valentin Fehr (Cl. 212), AFAM representative in Atlanta
- Giving back to your community: Interview with one of our Shasta mentors Alain Mutschler (Ch 190)
- "Giving back to your community": Interview with Jean Pommier (An 183)
- AFAM participated in Entrepreneurship Week 2021, organized by Parcours Entrepreneuriat et Innovation Technologique (PEIT), Arts et Metiers school
- Gadz gathering to say "goodbye" to the summer season - Saratoga, CA
- Alumni meet parcours US students: series of online events
- Arts et Métiers Business Angels' (AMBA) conference took place in September
- AFAM participated in a Coordination A&M Entrepreneurship Ecosystem October meeting
- On 9th November AFAM organized a meeting for gadz based in the US working in the energy sector
- AFAM community manager visits Arts et Metiers Paris, Angers and Cluny campuses in November
- Hello 2022! Goodbye 2021!
- Giving back to your community: Jean-Luc Nauleau (An 81), AFAM board member since 2007
- Zoom on "Why study in the US?" - Nicolas Horde (Ai.214) and Valentin Fehr (Cl.212) are sharing ( in French)
- Easy Mondays with a piece of advice from Basma Aiouche ( Cl 214)
- Easy Mondays with a piece of advice given by Basma Aiouche (Cl 214) - #2
- Easy Mondays with Basma Aiouche (Cl 214) - Advice #3
- Interview with Christophe Normand (Cl193): interns, J1 visa and more
- Easy Mondays with Basma Aiouche (Cl 214) - Advice #4
- AFAM board meeting took place on March 7th - what are the projects and tasks ahead of the associaton and the school?
- Zoom on: Meng and Advanced Manufacturing and Design, MIT - Antoine Yazbeck (Ch 217), Arts et Metiers & MIT alumnus
- AFAM participated in International Week organized by Arts et Metiers
- What our students are saying about their participation in Shasta, mentorship and the role AFAM played in their internship search
- Gadz US energy networking (in person) took place in Houston
- AFAM organized an online event to talk about American visas
- AFAM took place in an entrepreneurship ecosystem meeting
- Zoom on: Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) - Interview with Pierrick Rauby (Me 214), Sébastien Sequeira (Bo 216) and Eymard Prevost (Li 215)
- Manip Gadz - Bbq and Pool Party - MAY 7th
- Arts et Metiers school delegation visited Texas A&M campus to discuss further collaboration
- Zoom on: Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan - interview with Bingbing Wu (Cl 213)
- “Speaking about Yosemite”: Interview with Michel Vulpillat (Ch 183), Yosemite mentor, entrepreneur
- “Speaking about Yosemite”: Interview with Philippe Laurent (An 202), Yosemite mentor, entrepreneur
- Shasta program: our students testimonials in 2022
- Some Advice for our parcours US and GTL students
- “Green and Clean” - Interview #1 with Julien Artur de la Villarmois ( Cl 218), R&D engineer at Airthium
- Gadz US energy networking online event took place on September 6th. 2022
- French American Chamber of Commerce in SF meets French American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago
- Second and third year students met AFAM volunteers online to talk about Shasta and other programs
- Shasta program: mentors are saying
- Halloween in the United States
- Houston gadz November gathering
- AFAM participated in Arts et Metiers International Week
- AFAM community manager visits Paris, Lille and Châlons-en-Champagne campuses
- Meeting Carla Cornillon, graduate biomedical engineering student
- Looking back at 2022!
- Meeting apprentice students who accomplished internships in the USA
- Meeting Châlons-en-Champagne based apprentice students to talk about Shasta
- Traditional Galette des Rois took place in Saratoga, CA
- “Medi, Vidi, Vici” - interview with Alexandre Becache (Bo 219)
- Giving back to your community: Interview with Jérémy Berros (Li 206), web 3.0 enthusiast
- AFAM CEO Xavier Wartelle (Li 82) was awarded with SOCE medal
- AFAM elections 2023 - who are board directors today, who can vote and other information about the upcoming elections
- International Week took place in March
- Congratulations to our Shasta grant recipients!
- Marc Amblard (Cl 84), AFAM CFO, received SOCE bronze medal
- Double National title for one of our Board members - Jean Pommier (An 183)
- Gadz energy networking event took place in March
- Gadz'SF Spring 23' event at Spark Social SF took place in April
- Giving back to your community: Interview with VP International, Valerie Prulhière (Li 187)
- First Sequoia online conference for students willing to study in the US - took place on May 9th
- Pursuing an MBA after your J1 visa
- “Medi, Vidi, Vici” - interview with Louis Renaux (Cl 216)
- French Alumni Socal pre-summer networking took place in Los Angeles on June 5th
- Xavier Wartelle ( Li 82), AFAM CEO, met students and alumni at la SOCE on June 15th
- "Green and Clean" - Guénaël Prince ( Cl 201), co-founder and CEO of Waga Energy Inc (US affiliate of Waga Energy SA)
- Shasta 2023 results and some testimonials
- Zoom on: interview with Adam Salman, mechanical engineering student at Texas A&M, and participant of IRES program at Aix-en-Provence
- Gadz'arts based in New-York participated in AAGEF afterwork party
- “Business Unusual” entrepreneurship interview series: Paul-Henri Gauvin (Cl 192), Incubation Partner at Michelin - Founder and CEO SPH Group
- AFAM conference took place on September 22 in Angers
- "Business Unusual": interview with actor and film director Guillaume Campanacci (Ai 201)
- "Green and Clean" - Raphael Zaccardi (Cl 182), CEC project (Convention des Entreprises pour le Climat)
- AFAM community manager visited Paris, Metz and Aix-en-Provence campus in November 2023
- ZOOM on: interview with Georgia Tech Europe students Fanny Barroso-Roca (Me 221), Rémy Grandgeorges (Me 221), Louis Despruniée (An 221)
- December California events: gadz community gatherings
- AFAM conference was organized in Lille - with Aurore Prevot (Li 198)
- Last 2023 AFAM conference took place on December 15th during the International Week
- Zoom on: interview with Bailey Sizemore, a Mechanical Engineering Senior at Texas A&M University.
- Looking back at 2023!
- Traditional Galette des Rois took place in Saratoga
- Galette des rois organized in French Consulate in Houston
- AFAM met Rinters students (students in charge of International relations)
- NYC-based gadz group gathering took place in February
- Gadz attended a networking event in San Jose, CA
- AFAM Sequoia committee members presented Sequoia program during "Etudier aux Etats-Unis?" - online event organized by Pôle Carrière
- Zoom on: interview with Charles Fabos de Luzan (Bo 206), Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering /Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati
- Spring Gadz Gathering happened in Saratoga, CA
- Green and Clean: interview with Lucile Marionnet (Class 2019)
- US-based alumni participated in English classes offered on Aix campus
- Gadz'Voile 2024 - Berkeley, CA
- Hello summer! Gadz gatherings took place in June in Houston and Boston
- 12 Arts et Metiers students received Sequoia #2 grant and 1 student received Shasta grant in June
- Gadz'Meet 2024 event is coming up in September
- Gadz'Arts met to celebrate Bastille Day!
- A Welcome Meeting with A&M students was organized in July
- "Zoom on" - interview with Thomas Mas (Ch 219), Associate Project Manager at Walt Disney Imagineering
- Welcome meeting for Atlanta-based students took place in August
- "Zoom on" - interview with Diane REIXACH (Ai 2022)
- Gadz'Meet 2024 - its first edition took place in San Francisco this past weekend!
- French schools' happy hour took place in San Francisco
- Our Yosemite mentors and members of the Yosemite committee, Xavier Wartelle (Li 82) and Philippe Laurent ( An 202) met students and alumni to talk about Yosemite program
- Nicolas Horde (Ai 214), West Coast group president and AFAM board member met with parcours US students in Paris
- Gadz'Arts gathering in September
- Gadz'Meet - the event of the year 2024: read some participants' testimonials
- TAKE MY WORD FOR IT: Julie Coheleah (Bo 221) recalls the US master's application process and her joys and challenges on UC Berkeley campus
- Gadz gathering in November
- Blog / News
- Alexis Turjman, A&M alumni and PhD student at MIT - since 2009
- Michel Brun, A&M and UC Berkeley alumni - August 2012
- Antoine Chaignon, A&M alumni and Master student at UC Berkeley
- Matias Poloniecki, A&M alumni and Master student at UC Berkeley
- Meeting with Oriana Peltzer (Bo215), mechanical engineering student at Stanford University
- Blog / News
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- Testimonials - Internships
- Julien Nachef, intern at UC Berkeley - summer 2012
- Yann Orieult, Intern at NASA, 2016
- Meet Arts et Métiers Alumni Félix Ban, intern at Exa Corporation, 2017-2018
- Meet Amaury Lecomte (Li 216), a soon-to-be intern in NYC and looking for an accommodation
- Shasta Mentor of the Month (October 2018) - Jean-Christophe Boulon (Me 213)
- Advice: how to find an internship in the US (by soon-to-be intern Hugo Elissalde)
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