Tag: Beamline for Schools
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Amgen supports Beamline for Schools 2020
For the third year running, the CERN & Society Foundation is happy to announce that Amgen Switzerland is supporting the CERN Beamline for Schools Competition (BL4S). Amgen is one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. Each year, Amgen commits significant financial support and product donations to help make a difference in people’s lives. Like the previous two years, Amgen…
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Looking back at a year full of achievements
At the CERN & Society Foundation, it is our mission ‘To Spread the spirit of CERN Scientific curiosity, for the inspiration and benefit of society’. And we are proud to say that we have taken great strides towards achieving this goal in the last year. We have helped bring STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)…
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CERN Beamline for Schools competition 2020 Winners
Two teams of high-school students, one from the International School of Geneva, Campus des Nations, Switzerland, and one from the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium in Berlin, Germany, have won the 2020 Beamline for Schools competition (BL4S). Later this year, the winning teams will be invited to the DESY research centre in Hamburg, Germany, for the opportunity to carry out their proposed experiments together with scientists…
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Record number of submissions for “Beamline for Schools”
The deadline for the seventh edition of the Beamline for Schools competition expired on 31 March 2020. An exceptionally high number of proposals has been received despite the current difficult situation worldwide. In total, 198 proposals from 47 countries have been submitted. Outside of the very first edition in 2014, this marks a new record!…
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The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation supports BL4S 2020
We are delighted to announce our ongoing partnership with the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation in support of the Beamline for Schools Competition (BL4S) 2020. For the second time, the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation – Germany’s most important private institution that supports scientific research and education with an emphasis on physics – has chosen…
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Ernest Solvay Fund supports Beamline for Schools
For the fifth time in the Competition’s history, Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is funded in part by the Fund Ernest Solvay, managed by the King Baudouin Foundation. The Fund was one of the first supporters of the CERN & Society Foundation and their ongoing encouragement has helped shape the world’s future scientists and engineers. The…
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Beamline for Schools 2019 participants present results
Monday, 28 October, marked the completion of data collection for the 2019 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) winning teams on the Hamburg campus of the German physics research centre DESY. Two teams – from Salt Lake City, Utah, in the USA and Groningen in the Netherlands – won the CERN-organised international competition, wherein high-school students propose their own particle…
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Arconic Foundation renews support for the CERN & Society Foundation
Arconic Foundation renews support for the CERN & Society Foundation Since 2016, the Arconic Foundation has been a valuable supporter of the CERN & Society Foundation, and we are now very happy to announce that our partnership has been extended until 2021! Thanks to their most recent generous donation to the CERN & Society…
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Amgen supports Beamline for Schools 2019
The CERN & Society Foundation is happy to announce that the 2019 Beamline for Schools Competition (BL4S) will once again be supported by Amgen Switzerland for the second year running. We are delighted to count them amongst our partners who help us make the Competition possible, bringing so many young students closer to science. It…