For the first time in 2024 French American Chamber of Commerce organized an event in San Jose and not in San Francisco which is often the case. The San Jose location attracted many French speaking people living in the South Bay. The event took place on the last day of February -29th.
A lot of French speaking engineers, entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, teachers and other professionals attended the networking spring event to meet new people and make new connections.
Some gadz'arts were also seen among the audience.
On the picture (from left to right): Xavier Wartelle (AFAM CEO), Jean Pommier (AFAM CFO ) with his wife Agnès, Vincent Durieux and AFAM community manager Albina at the event
NYC-based gadz group gathering took place in February. On Thursday, February 15th, a group of gadz'arts led by Sasha Ghebali, West Coast Zident, gathered for Happy Hour in one of NYC bars.
It looks like they enjoyed being together.
Thank you, Sacha, for sharing this picture below with AFAM.
On February 6th, AFAM representatives - AFAM CFO Jean Pommier (An 183), Robert Stelly (Ch 197), member of Shasta committee and Valentin Fehr (Cl 212), member of Sequoia committee, AFAM board member, as well as Albina Patou-Chebykina, AFAM community manager, - met with Daniela Stelmaszyk, Head of European and International Mobility, and two Rinters (stands for "relations internationales").
Cathérine Epis, from the Châlons campus team, also attended the meeting.
Rinters Amir Azzouz (Li 2022) and Elliot Nendick (Me 2022), in charge of international relations on Lille and Metz campuses, met AFAM volunteers and AFAM community manager to learn about our Shasta, Sequoia and Yosemite programs and ask questions about AFAM and its activities.
AFAM would like to thank Daniela Stelmaszyk for organizing the meeting.
We hope that Amir and Elliot as well as other Rinters on Aix, Paris, Cluny and other campuses will become our partners to facilitate communication with our students.
Additional information about AFAM and its programs:
If you are looking for an internships in the US to start in September 2024, please contact us to join the Shasta program
If you are willing to study in the US, please join our Sequoia program
Traditional French Galette des rois was organized in Houston on the 17th of January 2024. French Consulate in Houston hosted the event at the initiative of the gadz group based in Texas. We would like to thank Patrice Brossard (Bo 195), DG Amériques, who came up with the idea and helped organizing this event!
A&M students and alumni as well as French speaking University professors and faculty members gathered to celebrate the Epiphany.
This was a great occasion to connect, discuss and feel a sense of belonging to a big French speaking community in Houston.
Looking forward to seeing other Houston-based events in partnership with the French consulate!
Please read about Galette des rois organised in Saratoga, CA
Galette des Rois 2024 occured in Saratoga on January 14th during Martin Luther King Jr. long weekend. This event is a traditional gadz'arts gathering in the Bay Area to kick off the new year. Brookside Club of Saratoga has been a meeting point for this beginning of the year event for both students and alumni of Arts et Metiers living, studing and working in San Francisco Bay Area. It is also a friendly place for gad'zarts families - spouses and children.
This year we also had two alumni who came from Las Vegas and LA area to join the community for Galette des Rois in Saratoga!
Thank you very much to Aurore Prevot (Li 198) for the delicious galettes and to Yarith Phay (Bo 191) and Nicolas Horde ( Ai 214) for organizing the event.
If you want to know more about upcoming SF bay area gadz events, please join our new Whatsapp group. Please contact AFAM community manager or West Coast zident to get a whatsapp link.
See you soon!