Tag: Beamline for Schools
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LinkedIn Newsletter: Beethoven, burger, bridges: Beamline for Schools 2025
Have you heard of the Beamline for Schools competition? If not, look no further. We’ll tell you everything you need to know! Starting with some essential terms Tell me more The competition has engaged over 24,000 students since it kicked off in 2014. Supported through the CERN & Society Foundation, it is made possible thanks to external donations. This…
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Smashing more than just particles: read about the achievements of the CERN & Society Foundation in 2024
Smashing more than just particles: read about the achievements of the CERN & Society Foundation in 2024 With our 2024 Annual Review now available to read online, we reflect on some highlights from the previous year ‘To every donor, partner and friend of the Foundation: there are no words to fully capture our gratitude. You…
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Students from Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Türkiye and the USA announced as winners of Beamline for Schools (BL4S)
The five winning teams will travel to CERN, DESY and ELSA to perform their proposed experiments Congratulations are in order! Five teams have been announced as the winners of the 2025 edition of the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition: “The Spallateam” (Collège Cardinal Mercier, Belgium), “Physical” (Cağaloğlu Anadolu Lisesi, Türkiye), “Dawson Technicolor” (Dawson College, Canada),…
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Beamline for Schools (BL4S): celebrating new milestones
The BL4S competition for high school receives more applications than ever before! Beamline for Schools (BL4S) continues to gain momentum. The competition, which invites high school students to design an experiment to perform at the beamline of an accelerator, celebrated its 10th anniversary back in September. And this year’s edition is reaching more impressive milestones. Excitingly,…
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Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards
The CERN-led educational programme Beamline for Schools is among the recipients of the 2025 awards of the European Physical Society’s High Energy and Particle Physics Division The 2025 awards of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS-HEPP) were announced this week and have this year recognised the success of Beamline…
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Curiosity over raw ability – an open letter from Jaiden
This article series is a part of a larger initiative by CERN & Society Foundation to inspire young girls and women in STEM careers and help aspiring scientists push existing boundaries. Our Women in STEM campaign aims to reduce the gap between dreaming and achieving fulfilling careers in science. “As someone with a bubbly and…
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You belong to science – an open letter from Violeta
his article series is a part of a larger initiative by CERN & Society Foundation to inspire young girls and women in STEM careers and help aspiring scientists push existing boundaries. Our Women in STEM campaign aims to reduce the gap between dreaming and achieving fulfilling careers in science. “I hope that women in future…
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2024 Beamline for Schools winners at CERN and DESY
CERN and DESY welcomed the winners of the 2024 Beamline for Schools competition from 12 to 26 September From 12 to 26 September, CERN and DESY (the German electron synchrotron facility) welcomed the winners of the 2024 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition. Students from Estonia, Japan and the USA carried out their own experiments using accelerator beams at the facilities. “Mavericks”, the team…
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Students from Estonia, Japan and the USA win the 11th edition of Beamline for Schools
Three teams of secondary school pupils from Estonia, Japan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN and DESY Geneva and Hamburg, 25 June 2024. Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition run by CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, open to secondary school pupils…
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The Beamline for Schools winners experimented at CERN and DESY
From 14 to 28 September, the three winning teams of the 2023 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition had the chance to use the test-beam facilities at CERN and DESY to perform their experiments. The “Myriad Magnets” team from the United States and the “Particular Perspective” team from Pakistan came to CERN, while the “Wire Wizards” team…