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10,000th teacher visits CERN
Kathryn ColdhamHST 2016 teachers with CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti in the CERN Council Chamber. (Image: CERN/Maximilien Brice)This summer, CERN welcomed the 10,000th teacher to participate in...
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CERN openlab student programme closes with lightning talks
Andrew PurcellThe CERN openlab summer students celebrate their successful lightning talk sessions (Image: Andrew Purcell/ CERN)Earlier this week, this year’s CERN openlab summer students presented...
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CERN hosts training on gender inclusive teaching
Kristin KaltenhauserAdvisor for Medical Applications, Manjit Dosanjh with Pakistani teacher Hadi Hassan (Image: CERN) For the second time, CERN’s Diversity Office facilitated a working group on gender...
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Higgs Prize winners visit CERN
Kathryn ColdhamStudent winners of the 2016 Higgs Prize, Hannah Takahashi and Calum Sharp, underground at CMS standing in front of a photo of the LHC tunnel. (Image: Mick Storr/CERN)This summer, the...
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Code challenge winners come to CERN
Andrew PurcellCompetition winners Daniel Vea (second from left) and Pablo Gonzalez De Aledo Marugan (second from right), with their partners and Russel Beutler of Intel (far left). (Image: Andrew...
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Beamline for Schools 2016: how to be a CERN scientist
Stefania PandolfiStudents from the Beamline for Schools competition in 2016 working at their experiment (Image: Noemí Carabán Gonzalez/CERN)Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had...
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ATLAS Open data used at a University
Katarina AnthonyFrom the left: two Dortmund students working with ATLAS Open Data, Isabel Nitsche, who is supervising the students during the lab course, and Sonja Bartkowski, the main developer of the...
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Applications open for 2017 International Teacher Programmes
Teachers participate in the High School Teacher's programme (Image: Anna Pantelia/ CERN)In summer 2017, CERN will offer two residential programmes for high school physics teachers. Both programmes will...
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New summer camp at CERN
S’Cool LAB Summer CAMP is an opportunity for 22 high-school students (aged 16-19) from all around the world to spend 2 weeks exploring the fascinating world of particle physics. The first S’Cool LAB...
View ArticleStudents from CERN competition publish research paper
Christoph RembserTeam Dominicuscollege, from Nijmegen, Netherlands, designed, built and tested a crystal calorimeter in the context of CERN’s first beam line for schools competition (Video: Team...
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Applications open for 2017 CERN openlab student programme
Andrew PurcellThe 2016 CERN openlab summer students in front of the Globe (Image: Andrew Purcell/CERN)Are you a bachelor's or master's student in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or physics?...
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Deadline extended for CERN high-school summer camp
Students at the CERN S’cool LAB (Image: Jeff Wiener/ CERN)Are you a high-school student and fascinated by the world of particle physics?If yes, you have 4 weeks left to apply for the first S’Cool LAB...
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Video contest: PACMAN needs you!
Tommaso PortaluriThe ten PACMAN fellows holding an object representative of their research field. (Image: PACMAN)PACMAN, a Marie Curie Project, has launched an animation contest, with a prize of 500...
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Second Innovation for Change project kicks off today
Last year's Innovation for Change project kick off was held in CERN's IdeaSquare (Image: Luca Magnani/SAFM)Following last year's success the Innovation for Change project kicked off it's second edition...
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Meet the talented recipients of the ATLAS PhD Grant
Katarina AnthonyChilufya Mwewa, one of the 2017 ATLAS PhD Grant recipients. (Image: S. Biondi/ATLAS Experiment)Motivated. Outstanding. Enthusiastic. These are the criteria used when selecting the...
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Applications for S’Cool LAB Days in 2017/18 now open
S'Cool LABStudents working at CERN during a S'Cool LAB Day. (Image: CERN)High school teachers are invited to apply now to visit S’Cool LAB between September 2017 and June 2018 for a full day programme...
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Award season at the ATLAS Experiment
Katarina AnthonyFrom left to right: ATLAS Spokesperson Dave Charlton; awardees Matthias Saimpert, Benjamin Philip Nachman, Joana Machado Miguéns, Lene Bryngemark, Kurt Brendlinger and Miguel Arratia,...
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(Almost) the whole world represented in BL4S
Students from the Beamline for Schools competition in 2016 working at their experiment (Image: Noemí Carabán Gonzalez/CERN)On 31 March 2017 the submission period ended for the fourth Beamline for...
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Sit down for coffee with the Standard Model
Julia WoitheThe Standard Model Lagrangian on a mug available in the CERN shop (Image: CERN)A new, open-access paper, published in Physics Education, helps teachers to explain the Standard Model and the...
View Article40th CERN School of Computing goes to Spain: Apply now!
Sebastian LopienskiApplications are now open for CERN’s 40th School of Computing. The CSC 2017 will take place from 27 August to 9 September 2017 in Madrid, Spain, in collaboration with Universidad...
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