Huge Success for the 2019 Open House

The EPFL campus was full of fun this weekend during the Open House organised for the School's 50^th anniversary. Nearly 40,000 visitors were on site over the weekend. An attractive programme combining demonstrations, lab visits, conferences, workshops and drone races drew crowds to EPFL's 2019 Open House. With the help of the weather, nearly 40,000 people, including many children, came to discover what the Ecole polytechnique de Lausanne, which became a federal institution 50 years ago, had in store. The organisers could not contain their contentment. "Nearly 1500 employees and students enthusiastically agreed to participate in the celebrations, whether to animate stands or guide visitors - and always with a smile," says Maureen Décosterd, Head of the Mediacom Events Department. As for attendance, measured both by the security services and the counting mats developed by one of our School's start-ups (Technis), it was slightly higher than expected.