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The came for motivation, for answers, and 'because it's CERN' – participants in the July 2012 programme share their experiences
A model developed by a Belgian student has helped ISOLDE to perform sensitive measurements of franconium, one of the world's rarest elements
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the Slovak University of Technology jointly organized a course on ion sources in Senec, Slovakia
The African School of Physics was held in Ghana this summer, where lecturers from CERN shared their expertise with 50 motivated students
Five tweeps visited CERN to take part in events held with STS-134 astronauts to commemorate the AMS detector's first year in space
CERN welcomed 279 young scientists from 71 nations this year on its Summer Students Programme
CERN's summer school attracts students from all over the world to learn alongside experimentalists and theorists
Twelve talented students aged 15-18 got to spend a week at CERN as part of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair prize
Katie Kemp, an 18-year-old from Seattle, visited CERN with help from a charitable foundation
Last year's winner Shree Bose won a trip to CERN, which coincided with the announcement of the discovery of a new, Higgs-like particle