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All primary and secondary students and teachers can participate - in their own language with prizes for you & your classroom
The competition featured students working on exciting challenges within both high-energy physics and other research domains
Five high-school students from Germany conducted their own research at CERN as part of the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt programme
The final students from the 2017 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme recently left CERN after nine weeks working on advanced computing projects
CERN celebrated teachers’ key contribution to society with a stand-up show and a panel discussion at the Globe of Science and Innovation
Carlo Baccigalupi, a CERN PhD, was awarded Italy’s 2017 Carlo Offelli Prize for his PhD dissertation
24 high-school students from 24 different countries took part in the first S’Cool LAB Summer CAMP at CERN
Groups of physics students are invited, along with their teachers, to research and propose an idea for an experiment
AcceleratAR uses paper cubes and an augmented reality app to simulate a particle accelerator to help students learn about particle physics
CERN openlab has been running its summer student programme for 15 years. Some of our students also return to CERN...
Applications are now open for CERN’s 40th School of Computing. The CSC 2017 will take place from 27 August to 9 September 2017 in Madrid, Spain
The Standard Model Lagrangian equation, seen on t-shirts and mugs from CERN, is explained line-by-line in a new paper aimed at teachers
