From Electrons to Galaxies: Greek high schoolers visit CERN
Angelos Alexopoulos(Video: Stella Tsikrika)Soon after his return to Greece from the Greek Teachers Programme at CERN last autumn, high-school physics teacher Andreas Valadakis put forward his plan for...
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Apply now for CERN's Summer Student Programme
Summer students gather in front of the Globe of Science and Innovation on a sunny day at CERN in 2012 (Image: Anna Pantelia/CERN)Every year hundreds of students join CERN for an incredible summer. For...
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Physics meets art at London school
Angelos AlexopoulosA banner of the CMS detector adorns the facade of the City of London school by Millenium Bridge, with St Paul's Cathedral in the background (Image: Michael Hoch)At the City of London...
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'I’m a scientist, get me out of here!'
Stephanie HillsNow well-established in the UK, I’m a scientist, get me out of here! is an opportunity for researchers with the X-factor to get involved in what one previous winner described as "One of...
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Schools competition: Win a beam line
Kate KahleThis competition will give a winning school group access to the “T9” Proton Synchrotron beam line (Image: Christoph Rembser/CERN)What if high-school students could come to CERN for more than...
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Teens join the MoEDAL collaboration
Stephanie HillsTeacher Becky Parker (left) with two students from the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in the MoEDAL experimental area (Image: CERN)The principal investigator for any institute...
View ArticleApply now for the openlab Summer Student Programme 2014
Last year's openlab summer student programme participants explain their projects (Video: Jasmin Benson, Ioannis Georgopoulos, Sebastian Medykowski)Are you a B.Sc. or M.Sc. student (who will have...
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Two weeks to go to register for beam line for schools
Pauline GagnonThe Proton Synchrotron beam line (Image: CERN)With registration closing on 31 January, what would you do if you could conduct a real experiment on a CERN proton beam line? As part of this...
View ArticleHangout with CERN and the Google Science Fair
Kate KahleToday at 4.20pm CET, as part of the ongoing Hangout with CERN series on YouTube, CERN is conducting a virtual field trip that links the school of Eric Chen, Grand Prize winner of the 2013...
View ArticleApply now for 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics
Applications are open until 14 February for the 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics which will take place in Garderen in the Netherlands 18 June - 1 July. Lectures will cover a broad range of...
View ArticleHow the Particle Physics Masterclasses began
As many as 10,000 school students in 37 countries participate each year in the Particle Physics Masterclasses, which are now in their 10th year at the international level. In this CERN Courier article,...
View ArticleCERN summer student programme - just two days left to apply
Every year hundreds of students join CERN for an incredible summer. For the chance to be a summer student in Geneva, Switzerland, and get involved in some of the world’s biggest experiments, apply now...
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CERN connects with IceCube to bring science to schools
Clockwise from top left: Angelos Alexopoulos and Zoltan Szillasi in the CMS Control Room, Jim Madsen at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), students in Athens, Michael Hoch in...
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The race is on for "beam line for school" teams
Kate KahleWorld map showing the locations, in blue, of the 455 teams registered for the beam line for schools competition (Image: Kristin Kaltenhauser)With registration closed, the 455 teams now have...
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Students get charged up at RD51 electronics school
Cian O'LuanaighEraldo Oliveri of CERN (seated) talks through detector concepts with participants in the RD51 electronics school (Image: Anna Pantelia/CERN)This week at CERN, students in electronics...
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CERN announces first recipients of ATLAS PhD Grant
Abha Eli PhobooWith certificates, from left: Lailin Xu, Josefina Alconada, and Gagik Vardanyan. Selection committee members, from left: IFAE Barcelona’s Martine Bosman, Fabiola Gianotti, Peter Jenni...
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Students visit the heart of the CMS detector
CERN engineer Andromachi Tsirou leads a virtual tour of the CMS detector, with over 500 students tuning in from Greece (Image: Noemi Beni/CERN)More than 500 junior and senior high-schoolers from seven...
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Spanish students share their visions of the future with CERN
The 50 selected images from the three age groups are now online on the CERNland website, vote now for your favourite (Image: CERNland)Over 1400 students in Spain have joined a CERN contest to explain...
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Five outstanding students win ATLAS Thesis Awards
Abha Eli PhobooThesis Committee Chair Craig Buttar, ATLAS Thesis Award winners Teng-Jian Khoo, Christopher Meyer, Kristof Schmeiden, and Julien Maurer, ATLAS spokesperson Dave Charlton, and ATLAS...
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ATLAS outreach without borders
Stephanie HillsKate Shaw (right) with students at M'sila University in Algeria (Image: Physics without Frontiers)A version of this article first appeared in UK News from CERN.Taking particle physics to...
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