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Astronaut Tim Peake is on the International Space Station with a Timepix chip from the CERN@School project
CERN openlab and Intel jointly announced the winners of the Modern Code Developer Challenge at annual Intel HPC Developer Conference in November
Students and teachers from the Middle East invited to CERN to explore opportunities that arise from international collaboration in science
Students from Mediterranean countries begin four month course to problem-solve societal issues
Winners of the Beamline for Schools competition perform their experiments at CERN
CERN hosted the 11 young students who won the CERN Special Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2015
Two teams of high-school students have been selected to travel to the laboratory in September
Primary-school children from the “Be a scientist” project came to CERN to present their findings
Education is a recurring theme of our 60th anniversary year, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer
Members of the personnel with dependent children aged 20 to 25 are invited to provide the Education fees service with a school certificate
A professional-development programme created in the US to help teachers explain particle physics has caught on across the world