Clik here to view.
CERN participates in “Girls in ICT” event
A CERN researcher at the “Girls in ICT” event in Geneva today wearing a “Vague but exciting” T-shirt. This was the text written in response to Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989...
View ArticleJoin the Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint at CERN
Patricia Herterich, Laura Rueda, Achintya RaoThis Thursday and Friday, you are invited to be part of an international “global sprint” in which sites around the globe will see participants collaborating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
S'Cool LAB: Applications now open
Alex Brown(Image: Jeff Wiener/CERN)S’Cool LAB, a new hands-on physics teaching facility at CERN, is offering workshops for high school students aged 16 to 19 during the academic year 2015/16.The lab...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Award-winning high-school students visit CERN
Andrew PurcellThe high-school students who won the CERN Special Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2015. Pictured on a visit to CERN (Image: Andrew Purcell)This week,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
First results from cosmic-ray detector designed by students
Stephanie HillsThe Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector (Image: LUCID)The first results from the Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector (LUCID) have been presented at the 2015 UK...
View ArticleApply now for ISOTDAQ 2016
The ISOTDAQ 2016 is the seventh of a series of International Schools dedicated to introduce MSc and PhD students to the "arts and crafts" of triggering and acquiring data for physics experiments. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CERN openlab students create network of cosmic ray detectors
'The Open Cosmics'This article originally appeared at International Science Grid This Week. Each year, students from all over the world come to CERN as part of the CERN openlab Summer Student...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the CERN summer students
Matilda HeronThe CERN summer students of 2015 (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)This year 280 summer students from 83 different countries took part in the CERN summer student programme. This programme has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Win an internship at CERN openlab
Andrew PurcellThe CERN computer centre (Image: Veronika McQuade/CERN)Are you a student looking for the chance to show off your coding skills? Would you like to win a trip to CERN, or even a nine-week...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CBI Students: ready for new challenges
Antonella Del RossoTwenty-seven students from more than ten countries are participating in the latest CBI-course (Image: Joona Kurikka for IdeaSquare)Twenty-seven students from four universities and...
View ArticleMOOC "From particles to stars"
A new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) organised by the Université Paris-Saclay starts today. From particles to stars will investigate the most recent advances in knowledge on extreme scales, from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Faster research code wins student CERN openlab internship
From over 1500 applicants, 40 students were selected to take part in the 2015 CERN openlab summer student programme (Image: CERN)CERN openlab and its partner company Intel jointly announced the winners...
View ArticleSchoolboy uses grid computing to analyse satellite data
David LugmayerAt just 16, Cal Hewitt, a student at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in the United Kingdom became the youngest person to receive grid certification – giving him access to huge...
View ArticleApply now for the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme 2016
Andrew PurcellFormer CERN openlab summer students share their experiences. (Video: CERN)Are you a bachelor’s or master’s student in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or physics? Are you...
View ArticleTim Peake’s TimPix launch into space
Stephanie HillsBritish Astronaut Tim Peake blasted off for the International Space Station this week, one of his tasks while in space will be to use a tiny piece of technology, courtesy of NASA, that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CERN encourages girls to "expand their horizons"
François BriardClaude Sanz (left), a fellow in the EN Department, explaining to three girls how to build a particle accelerator in a salad bowl.On 14 November, CERN took part for the fourth time in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Training course for eighteen teachers at CERN
Laurianne TrimoullaFrom 8 to 10 December, 18 teachers from all over France attended a three-day training course on matter, organised by the LAMAP Foundation (Fondation La main à la pâte, see here) and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CBI students: target hit!
CBI students presenting their projects at IdeaSquare (Image: Carlos Yarza/IED Barcelona).The students on the third Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) @CERN course have been working on their...
View ArticleRegister now for the European School of High-Energy Physics
The 2016 CERN-JINR European School of High-Energy Physics will take place in Skeikampen (close to Lillehammer), Norway, 15-28 June 2016. The School is targeted particularly at students in experimental...
View ArticleBeamline for Schools: be a CERN scientist for a week
Stefania PandolfiThe band “The Script” encourage high-school students to enter this year’s BL4S competition. (Video: footage courtesy of The Script, edited by CERN) Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a...
View Article