Tag: Education

  • Two mystery boxes in the hands of a new pair of CERN scientists

    Two mystery boxes in the hands of a new pair of CERN scientists

    Will physicist Dorota Grabowska and engineer Alberto Di Meglio be able to use a combination of theory and fact to work out, without opening them, what’s inside the two boxes designed by local schoolchildren?

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  • A successful sixth Women and Girls in Science and Technology event

    A successful sixth Women and Girls in Science and Technology event

    To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, female ambassadors from local scientific institutions visited schools to promote science and technology among children

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  • Two artworks and a school event inspired by CERN at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

    Two artists are presenting their work inspired by their research at CERN at the V&A exhibition “Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser”

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  • A warm welcome back to our visitors

    On 1 June 2021, CERN restarted a number of activities for the public after having had the doors closed for visits and events due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • The world needs diverse and inclusive science

    The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is an occasion to encourage everybody, and girls in particular, to consider a career in science

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  • Computing boost for Lebanon and Nepal

    Computing boost for Lebanon and Nepal

    Post-conflict nations establish supercomputing centres with CERN servers in a bid to stem brain-drain of highly-skilled graduates

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  • Sharing knowledge: the fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries

    Sharing knowledge: the fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries

    The fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries brought together 35 library professionals from African countries in Nairobi, Kenya

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  • CERN’s teacher programmes at 20

    The High-School Teacher programme, which involved 46 teachers from 33 countries during 2 weeks in July, celebrated its 20th anniversary

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  • Can ‘useless’ knowledge be useful?

    Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s Director-General, explains why knowledge for knowledge’s sake is the most valuable commodity we possess

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  • CERN inspires primary-school students to Play with Protons

    A new documentary charts the progress of the physics-education project “Playing with Protons”, a collaboration between CERN and a Greek primary school

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