Winning teams since 2014
Since the first edition in 2014, 14 teams have won the opportunity to run their experiments at a beamline at CERN until 2018 and at DESY in 2019 and 2020.
The teams "Odysseus' Comrades" from Greece and "Dominicuscollege" from the Netherlands won the first competition, followed in 2015 by "Leo4G" from Italy and "Accelerating Africa" from South Africa. For its third year running, CERN welcomed "Pyramid Hunters" from Poland as well as "Relatively Special" from the United Kingdom and for the fourth edition the teams "Charging Cavaliers" from Canada and "TCO-ASA" from Italy were welcomed. In the fifth edition, the teams "Beamcats" from the Philippines and "Cryptic Ontics" from India have been selected while in the sixth edition, the teams "Particle Peers" from the Netherlands as well as "DESY Chain" from the US have been invited to DESY in 2019. In the current edition 2020, the teams "Nations' Flying Foxes" from Switzerland as well as "ChDR-CHEESE" from Germany will be invited to DESY in autumn.
A beautiful mix of countries and origins for an enriching competition! If you are interested in learning about their projects, you can find all the information about previous winners as well as scientific articles here:
- Winners 2020
- Team ChDR Cheese (Germany)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Team Nation’s Flying Foxes (Switzerland)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal (not yet available)
- Winners 2019
- Team DESY Chain (US)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Team Particle Peers (the Netherlands)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Winners 2018
- Team Beamcats (Philippines)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Team Cryptic Ontics (India)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Winners 2017
- Team Charging Cavaliers (Canada)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Team TCO-ASA (Italy)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Winners 2016
- Team Pyramid Hunters (Poland)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Relatively Special (UK)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Winners 2015
- Team Leo4G (Italy)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Team Accelerating Africa (South Africa)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Winners 2014
- Team Odysseus' Comrades (Greece)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
- Team Dominicuscollege (the Netherlands)
- Written proposal
- Video proposal
Since they left CERN, all teams have evolved in different ways. But also for the teams, which are still coming to DESY this year, media coverage is about to start. You can see some of the media coverage about previous winners and self-produced videos here:
- Team ChDR Cheese
(Germany, 2020) - Team Nation’s Flying Foxes
(Switzerland, 2020) - Team DESY
Chain (US, 2019)
- Team Particle
Peers (Netherlands, 2019) - Team Beamcats
(Philippines,2018) - Team Cryptic
Ontics (India, 2018)- Article in "The Times of India" newspaper about their winning of the competition.
- Article in the "Asian Scientist"
- On the eve of 109th Birth Anniversary of Homi J. Bhabha, BARC and DAE felicitated the winners of 2018, BL4S competition at Trombay on the Founder's day. All the winners were given mementos and certificates by the director K. N. Vyas, Chairman and Director of BARC and DAE.
- Article in the Journal of Youths in Science
- Article on Hindustantimes
- Team Charging
Cavaliers (Canada, 2017)- Article in "The star" newspaper about their winning of the competition.
- Article in the Physics News of University of Alberta.
- Article in "Cambridge Times".
- Article In "CBC news".
- Video News Video in CTV News Kitchener.
- Article on the website of the university of Waterloo, Canada
- Video by 2017 winner Andrew Mourcos
- Video by 2017 winner Paul McKarris
- Team TCO-ASA
(Italy, 2017) - Team Pyramid
Hunters (Poland, 2016)
- Team Relatively
Special (UK, 2016) - Team Leo4G
(Italy, 2017) - Team Accelerating
Africa (South Africa, 2015)