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S'cool Lab Summer Camp invites 16 to 19 year olds to spend 2 weeks exploring the fascinating world of particle physics at CERN
CERN will offer two residential programmes for high school physics teachers
The Technical University of Dortmund (Germany) is the first university to use ATLAS data in a lab course
Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully equipped CERN beamline
Last week, winners of the Intel Modern Code Challenge came to CERN
This summer CERN welcomed the winning students of the 2016 Higgs Prize, sponsored by the Scottish Government.
For the second time, CERN’s Diversity Office facilitated a working group on gender inclusive teaching as part of their High School Teacher Programme
Earlier this week, this year’s CERN openlab summer students presented their work as 5-minute ‘lighting talk’ presentations
This year marks the 10,000th teacher to visit CERN since its first teacher programme in 1998
Pre-registration is open for the fourth annual Beamline for Schools competition
From 11 to 17 June, CERN hosted the 10 young students who won the CERN Special Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Innovation for Change project, which began at CERN, rewards students that put existing technologies to better use for global, societal needs