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Prizes - 2022 edition

Winning teams

The two winning teams will spend about two weeks at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to carry out their proposed experiments at a testbeam facility. BL4S will cover the full costs of the winners' participation to the competition, including travel, local transport, accommodation in the CERN hostel and three meals per day. Before their arrival, the winning teams will have the opportunity to work together with scientists on their proposals in order to prepare their experimental setup.

Shortlisted teams

Beside the winning teams, up to 30 teams are selected in a shortlist. These teams will receive special prizes that could include a portable particle detector for their school and a BL4S T-shirt for each team member.

Best video award

The team that will submit the best video will receive a special award that could include a portable particle detector for their school and a BL4S T-shirt for each member.

SSVI Telescopes

In 2022, the organizers of the “Stars Shine For Everyone” initiative have offered some special prizes for the participants of Beamline for Schools. SSVI is, to use their own words, “An Astronomy Project for children with disabilities and underserved communities around the world”. The organizers of SSVI has donated five optical telescopes to us, that we will award to a selection of teams.

In order to win one of these telescopes we want you to propose a science education or outreach activity that the members of your team can organize in their community. Inclusiveness shall be a very important component of this activity, and the goal is to share your passion for physics with people that are less exposed to science. You could, for example, think about a creative way to introduce physics to children coming from a disadvantaged area in your environment.

If you want to be considered for winning one of these telescopes, please add an additional section of 100-200 words (in addition to the 1000 words limit of your BL4S proposal) to your submission and let us know about your idea for promoting science in an inclusive way. We encourage the winners of these awards to realize their activities and we will share the outcome on the BL4S website.

All participants

Every participant receives a digital certificate to certify the participation in the BL4S competition.

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Beamline for Schools T-shirt

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BL4S certificate

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Kit for DIY particle detectors: spectrometers for measuring ionising radiation like alpha particles and electrons. One of the possible prizes for teams in the shortlist.

SSVI telescope
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Telescope offered by the "Stars Shine for Everyone" project signed by François Englert and Michel Mayor Nobel prize laureates in 2013 and 2019, respectively.

Illustrated prizes are indicative. CERN reserves the right to modify or exchange the prize should it so require.