Category: Miscellaneous
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Update about current evaluation process
Update about current evaluation process This year we have received 178 proposals from 48 countries, which are being evaluated by more than 60 experts being part of this year's CERN and DESY scientific jury. In about two weeks we will publish this year's shortlisted teams. These teams will receive extra prizes and two of these…
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School teams get one step closer to the CERN beamline
School teams get one step closer to the CERN beamline When the clock struck midnight on Monday 31 March, nearly 300 teams from around the world had submitted proposals telling CERN why they should win the beam line for schools competition. In a race that began in November, when the competition was launched, school teams…
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Find out more about CERN’s beamline for schools
Students 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: Ronaldus Suykerbuyk/CERN) CERN is inviting high-school students aged 16 or older from anywhere in the world to submit a proposal to do an experiment with a particle…
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Beamline for Schools hangout now available on YouTube
Beamline for Schools hangout now available on YouTube The “Hangout with CERN” special from 5 December 2014 featured CERN researchers and last year’s competition winners (Video: Hangout with CERN) CERN researchers and last year’s winners took part in the hanguot above to say more about the Beamline for Schools competition and what it’s like to…
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Teams from 40 countries in the running for 2015
Teams from 40 countries in the running for 2015 With registration now closed, the 212 teams from 40 countries have just one month to go to submit their proposals. High-school groups from around the world had until the end of January to register for CERN’s Beamline for schools contest with “tweets of intent”. In 140…
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Proposals are in for Beamline for Schools 2015
Proposals are in for Beamline for Schools 2015 The Beamline for Schools competition gives a team of high-school students the chance to perform an experiment at a fully functional beam line at CERN. Selection of the winner for 2015 is now underway. This year, some 119 teams from all over the world sent us their…
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Motorola Solutions Foundation supports Beamline for Schools
Motorola Solutions Foundation supports Beamline for Schools CERN Beamline for Schools Competition (2015) receives grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation.
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Announcing the winners for 2015
Announcing the winners 2015 CERN today announced the winners of its 2015 Beamline for schools competition. Two teams of high-school students have been selected to travel to CERN in September to carry out their own experiments using a CERN accelerator beam. The winners, the “Leo4G” team from Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci School in Florence,…
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Winning teams for 2015 arrive at CERN
Winning teams for 2015 arrive at CERN The two teams of high-school students that won this year's beamline for schools contest arrived at CERN today, ready to set up their experiments on the T9 beamline. The “Leo4G” team from Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci School in Florence, Italy, and the “Accelerating Africa” team from St…
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Safety first
Safety first Spending a day of the school-holidays learning about health and safety may not be many students idea of fun. But that’s exactly what the young scientists from the Beamline for Schools contest spent last Friday doing. The two teams – Leo4G from Italy and Accelerating Africa from South Africa – had to complete…