primary school

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Female science ambassadors reach out to more than 5000 local schoolchildren

Women working in science and engineering took time out to visit local schools and talk about their jobs as part of “Women and girls in science and technology” week

News
Knowledge sharing
03 February, 2023
Knowledge sharing
News
03 February, 2023

Join the ranks of the ambassadors for Women and Girls in Science and Technology

From 30 January to 3 February 2023, female scientists and engineers will be invited to speak at local schools to get young people excited about science. Volunteer now!

Announcement
At CERN
07 November, 2022
At CERN
Announcement
07 November, 2022

The Schools Challenge: time to open the boxes!

On Friday, 13 May, local primary schoolchildren attended an event in the Globe of Science and Innovation to reveal the contents of boxes they had carefully prepared as a challenge for CERN’s scientists

News
At CERN
23 May, 2022

Primary schools’ challenge: Archana Sharma and Pieter Mattelaer round off the investigations

At a considerable advantage thanks to the previous teams’ findings, will Archana and Pieter finally work out what’s in the boxes?

News
At CERN
04 April, 2022

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?

News
At CERN
07 March, 2022

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

News
Knowledge sharing
14 February, 2022
Knowledge sharing
News
14 February, 2022

Two CERN physicists take up the mystery boxes challenge set by local primary schools

Will CERN physicists Mar Capeans and Tapan Nayak use their knowledge of the fundamental properties of matter wisely to detect what’s inside the boxes?

News
At CERN
02 November, 2021

Two CERN scientists give the primary schools’ challenge a go

Used to making precise measurements, will Pippa Wells and Sabrina Schadegg be able to figure out what’s inside the mysterious boxes?

News
Knowledge sharing
10 September, 2021
Knowledge sharing
News
10 September, 2021

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”

News
Knowledge sharing
20 July, 2021
Knowledge sharing
News
20 July, 2021

One hundred school kids investigate mystery boxes at CERN

Primary-school children from the “Be a scientist” project came to CERN to present their findings

News
At CERN
10 June, 2015

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

News
At CERN
03 December, 2014

Playing with protons in primary

For some Greek students, the journey to the world of particle physics starts at the primary school

News
At CERN
07 April, 2014
At CERN
News
07 April, 2014