Category: Miscellaneous
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Article of winning team “Relatively Special” published
Article of winning team “Relatively Special” published Article of team "Relatively Special" published In 2016 the winners of the team "Relatively Special" from the UK have been at CERN to carry out their proposed experiment. Relatively Special is a team from Colchester Royal Grammar School and comprises 17 students. Their project aimed to test the…
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Winners of BL4S 2018 are at CERN
Winners of BL4S 2018 are at CERN The two winning teams BEAMCATS from the Philippines and CRYPTIC ONTICS from India are currently at CERN and are conducting their proposed experiments at the T9 beamline of CERN's Proton Synchrotron. Having gone through a whole day of safety training at the beginning of their stay at CERN,…
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BL4S receives new grants
BL4S receives new grants We are delighted to announce two new grants in support of the 2019 Beamline for Schools Competition. The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, Germany's most important private institution that supports scientific research and education with an emphasis on physics, will partner with the CERN & Society Foundation to support the 2019…
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Proposal submission for 2019 is open!
Proposal submission for 2019 is open! The submission of proposals for the BL4S edition 2019 is now open. Until 31 March 2019 midnight CET you can submit your 1000-word proposal and 1-minute video for the upcoming competition 2019. We recommend to pre-register before to receive email updates. In five successful years of the BL4S competition,…
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New BL4S flyer available
New BL4S flyer available Our new BL4S flyer is available now in English and in German. It contains a great deal of information about the competition itself, the timeline, experiments and support as well as about the prizes. We invite you to have a look, to download and to distribute them. Be our ambassadors and…
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New BL4S promotion video released
New BL4S promotional video released Are you still not sure if you should take part in the Beamline for Schools competition? Get inspired by our new promotional video for the next edition 2019! It is available in English and in German and it contains a lot of information about the competition and the two world-leading…
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Join our new BL4S Facebook group!
Join our new BL4S Facebook group! Did you want to participate in BL4S, but you did not find other interested schoolmates? Did you want to connect with like-minded, but did not know how? Did you want to discuss questions interactively? For this and much more, we have just launched our new BL4S Facebook group! Join…
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The evaluation of the sixth Beamline for Schools competition finally starts
The evaluation of the sixth Beamline for Schools competition finally starts The sixth edition of Beamline for Schools marks a new chapter in the history of this competition. For the first time this competition is taken to another research laboratory: DESY, a world-leading accelerator centre close to Hamburg, Germany. Due to CERN's shutdown of its…
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Distribution of participating countries 2019 published
Distribution of participating countries 2019 published In this year's Beamline for Schools competition, 48 countries from all around the world took part. With regard to the number of 178 participating teams with more than 1300 students, this is a new record. We have now prepared an overview of the collected data. For the 2019 edition…
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Which team submitted the 1000th proposal in the history of this competition?
Which team submitted the 1000th proposal in the history of this competition? After six years of Beamline for Schools altogether 1114 proposals have been submitted. This is a new milestone in the history of this competition. Representative for this success we would like to reward the team, which submitted the 1000th proposal, with an extra…