WorldSkills

My WorldSkills story started well before Team France. It was built step by step, with a real increase in both the level and the expectations.

In 2022, I took part in the FANUC Olympiads at the bac+2 level while I was in a BTS program. The format was still short, but the spirit was already there: speed, precision, industrial robot programming, and direct comparison with other schools.

In 2023, I returned to the FANUC Olympiads at the bac+3 level while I was in my engineering-track year. The level rose, the tests became broader, and that edition became a real entry point toward WorldSkills because the best regional teams could move on to the trade selections.

That progression then continued toward the national WorldSkills France competition and, from there, to the world competition in Lyon in 2024.

The 2022 FANUC Olympiads took place over one day, with industrial robot programming tasks such as pick and place as well as technical quizzes. I won the gold medal at the bac+2 level.

In 2023, the FANUC Olympiads moved to another level: two days of competition, broader tasks, and a mix of programming, vision, mechanical assembly, and electrical work. I won gold again, this time at the bac+3 level.

That edition mattered because it opened the door to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte regional team for the next stages of the WorldSkills path.

The national final, WorldSkills France 2023 in Lyon, officially brought together 847 competitors across 69 trades over three days. I won gold in industrial robotics integration there, which allowed me to join Team France.

The next stage was WorldSkills Lyon 2024, the world competition, with more than 60 trades represented in a much denser, more exposed, more technical, and more demanding environment.

What I discovered through WorldSkills is that the difficulty does not come only from the technical subject itself. It also comes from pace, pressure, the presence of judges, fatigue, and the need to stay clean in execution.

At both the national and world levels, the tasks were not limited to programming a robot. They also involved mechanical assembly, electrical work, simulation, technical documentation, and later maintenance.

WorldSkills Lyon 2024 pushed that even further: tasks and judges in English, tighter time pressure, much heavier preparation, and an international level against countries with extremely strong structures in this field.

In that kind of environment, time matters a great deal. It is not enough to know how to do the work. You have to do it quickly, cleanly, and without losing composure.

WorldSkills preparation had nothing to do with occasional practice. From the regional team onward, and then with Team France, the pace and the framework changed completely.

For the national final, preparation already moved toward a performance logic, with technical training several times per week and physical and mental preparation sessions at a CREPS training center.

For WorldSkills Lyon 2024, the level rose again. I notably completed five weeks of technical training directly at FANUC headquarters, in addition to regular technical sessions throughout the year.

On top of that, there were five weeks of physical and mental preparation spread over the year with Team France, in places such as INSEP.

That is probably what marked me the most: understanding how much a technical competition can demand a global preparation, not only technical skill on a robot.

At WorldSkills Lyon 2024, I earned a Medallion for Excellence and finished 4th, behind China, Chinese Taipei, and South Korea. It also made it the top European result in the discipline for that edition.

Beyond the result itself, this path confirmed something simple for me: I enjoy competition, I like being pushed into difficulty, and I am drawn to environments where the expected level forces fast progress.

WorldSkills also became an accelerator for my learning in industrial robotics. In a short time, I was exposed to work standards, preparation methods, and places I probably would not have experienced otherwise.

It taught me how to execute under constraint, stay composed under pressure, and develop a real taste for demanding environments rather than avoiding them.