Category: Miscellaneous
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High-school students become CERN physicists for a week
From 10–20 September, winners of the Beamline for Schools competition visited CERN to perform their experiments. Two teams of high-school students – “Accelerating Africa” from South Africa and “Leo4G” from Italy – were chosen from a total of 119 teams, adding up to 1050 high-school students. “When we were told we’d won we never believed…
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Successful launch for the Beamline for Schools competition
Successful launch for the Beamline for Schools Competition 3 weeks only after the opening of the submission period, more than 65 teams have already registered to the Beamline for Schools competition! If you have not submitted your project proposal or registered your team yet, do not hesitate to do it here. No worries, you still…
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Particle detectors for schools
Particle detectors for schools As announced in the invitation to join the Beamline for Schools Competition 2016; teams that make it with their proposal to the shortlist being submitted to the SPS and PS committee will receive a functional particle detector for their school. Do you wonder what that would be? We are glad to…
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“The Script” promotes Beamline for Schools
“The Script” promotes Beamline for Schools "The Script" promotes Beamline for Schools After Will.I.am, 2 years ago, The Script joins the trend and launches its Beamline for Schools' promotional video! Watch here the three band members explaining how and why high-school students should join the competition and let you get convinced, if not done already.
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One month left before closing the application period
One month left before closing the application period More than 200 coaches have pre-registered their teams so far, showing the big interest that Beamline for Schools’ competition raises across the world. However, a full proposal including a written project description as well as a short video are needed in order for the teams to make…
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The Fund Ernest Solvay contributes to the Beamline for Schools competition
The Fund Ernest Solvay contributes to the Beamline for Schools Competition We are happy to announce that BL4S is for the second time partly funded by the Fund Ernest Solvay, managed by the Kind Baudouin Foundation.
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Motorola Solutions Foundation supports CERN’s Beamline for Schools competition
Motorola Solutions Foundation supports CERN's Beamline for Schools Competition We are happy to announce that for the second time, the BL4S competition receives a grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation.
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Two weeks left before closing the application period
Two weeks left before closing the application period The jury is ready to go through all written proposals and videos in order to choose the short-listed teams and winning teams. As a novelty this year, t-shirts and Cosmic Pi detectors will be offered to all short-listed teams and paper certificates will be distributed to each…
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A successful year for the BL4S!
A successful year for BL4S! At midnight on 31 March 2016 the submission period for proposals was officially closed and an impressive total of 151 teams from 37 countries had submitted a full proposal –representing a total of 1261 motivated students! CERN scientists are now carefully evaluating the written proposals and many have remarked on…
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