Category: Miscellaneous
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The race is on for “beamline for school” teams
The race is on for “beamline for school” teams The race is on for Beamline for Schools teams With registration closed, the 455 teams now have just 55 days to say why they should win the CERN beamline for schools competition. Since its launch in November, news of the competition spread via the #bl4s hashtag,…
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The teams have arrived
The winning teams have arrived! The young physicists of Odysseus' Comrades and Dominicuscollege have arrived at CERN to start their adventure. Their first day was devoted to safety awareness and training. The teams learnt to recognize hazard signs and safety protocols at CERN, and members of the HSE department, Cryogenics group and Fire Brigade gave…
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Beam time
Beam time Out of 292 proposals for CERN’s first ever “Beamline for schools” contest, two teams of high-school students – Odysseus' Comrades from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and Dominicuscollege from Dominicus College in Nijmegen in the Netherlands – were selected to spend 10 days conducting their proposed experiments at the fully equipped T9…
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Registration for Beamline for schools competition 2015 is now open
(Video: CERN) CERN is famous for the Higgs boson discovery and the invention of the World Wide Web, but there’s much more to the laboratory than that. A large part of CERN’s research and development is carried out at so-called fixed-target beamlines. These projects range from investigating the inner workings of protons to probing the…
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Portuguese Brazil 2019
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