Apply for 2015 Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics
Applications are open until 14 November for the 2015 Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics which will take place in Ibarra, Ecuador 4 - 17 March. Lectures will cover a broad range of high-energy...
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A cross-border colloquium for budding scientists
Participants in the colloquium “La science en partage” in front of the Globe of Science and Innovation. “Where’s the best place to be sitting on a plane if it crashes?", “Is the desalinisation of water...
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Five schools on a virtual visit to CERN and IceCube
Abha Eli PhobooAngelos Alexopoulos and Steve Goldfarb connect with the schools (Image: CERN)The ATLAS and CMS experiments hosted a virtual visit together with the IceCube Experiment in the South Pole...
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CMS now open for Virtual Visits
Marzena LapkaStudents in Iran (left) connect with researchers in the CMS control room (right) (Image: Marzena Lapka/CERN)“Welcome to the CMS experiment. We are 100 metres underground and I will now...
View ArticleFind out more about CERN’s beamline for schools
Sophie HethertonStudents and teachers from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece, and Dominicus College in Nijmegen in the Netherlands discuss their projects at the T9 beamline at CERN (Video:...
View ArticleCERN inspires primary-school students to Play with Protons
Cian O'Luanaigh"Playing with Protons" (Video: Stella Tsikrika)This spring we highlighted the activities of primary-school teacher Tina Nantsou of Hill Memorial School in Athens, Greece, who, together...
View ArticleApply now for the openlab Summer Student Programme 2015
Former CERN openlab summer student programme participants explain their projects (Video: Jasmin Benson, Ioannis Georgopoulos, Sebastian Medykowski)Are you a B.Sc. or M.Sc. student in Computer Science,...
View ArticleRegister now for Beamline for schools
(Video:CERN)For the second year running, CERN is making a fully equipped beamline available for a team of high-school students aged 16 and over to run an experiment. To enter the Beamline for schools...
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Taking CERN physics to South Asia
Abha Eli PhobooKathmandu University students take part in an ATLAS virtual visit. (Image: Abha Eli Phoboo/CERN)CERN physicists travelled to South Asia to bring a plethora of particle physics events to...
View ArticleHow to make your own cloud chamber
Sophie HethertonUS / LHC communicator Sarah Charley explains how to make a cloud chamber (Video: Sarah Charley/US-LHC)Cosmic rays are high-energy subatomic particles that constantly bombard the Earth...
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CMS opens doors to 700 students from local schools
Achintya RaoCMS guide Achintya Rao with one of the visiting groups of schoolchildren (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)On 16 and 17 February, the CMS experimental cavern played host to hundreds of young...
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Beamline for schools: Teams from 40 countries in the running
World map showing the locations, in blue, of the teams registered for the Beamline for schools competition (Image: Beamline for schools/CERN)With registration now closed, the 212 teams from 40...
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Challenge-Based Innovation: They rose to the challenge!
Anaïs SchaefferAs part of the IdeaSquare project, the Challenge-Based Innovation (CBI) programme is based on a very pragmatic question: can the tools and results produced by basic research (like that...
View ArticleBeamline for schools 2015: Proposals are in
The Beamline for schools competition gives a team of high-school students the chance to perform experiments at a fully functional beam line at CERN. Selection of the winner for 2015 is now...
View ArticleRegister now for the European School of High-Energy Physics
Registration is now open for this year's European School of High-Energy Physics, which will be held in Bulgaria from 2-15 September 2015.Please note the deadline for applications is 8 May 2015.The...
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Swiss students vote CERN to top 5 most desirable employers
The Summer Student Programme is one of the many opportunities for students at CERN. Here, the 2014 cohort pose by the Globe of Science and Innovation on CERN's Meyrin campus in Switzerland (Image:...
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CERN participates in “Girls in ICT” event
A CERN researcher at the “Girls in ICT” event in Geneva today wearing a “Vague but exciting” T-shirt. This was the text written in response to Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989...
View ArticleJoin the Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint at CERN
Patricia Herterich, Laura Rueda, Achintya RaoThis Thursday and Friday, you are invited to be part of an international “global sprint” in which sites around the globe will see participants collaborating...
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S'Cool LAB: Applications now open
Alex Brown(Image: Jeff Wiener/CERN)S’Cool LAB, a new hands-on physics teaching facility at CERN, is offering workshops for high school students aged 16 to 19 during the academic year 2015/16.The lab...
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Award-winning high-school students visit CERN
Andrew PurcellThe high-school students who won the CERN Special Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2015. Pictured on a visit to CERN (Image: Andrew Purcell)This week,...
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