Tag: Education
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CMS Scientist wins SIF 2025 Award for Science Communication – Through Comics!
Luigi Marchese wins the prestigious SIF 2025 award for Science Communication, recognising his work on disseminating physics through comic books from the Societa’ Italiana di Fisica “Italian Physics Society”, or SIF.
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Playing with Protons: two years and counting
New paper charts the progress of CMS-led education initiative to empower primary school teachers towards modern physics, scientific discovery and innovation A new, open access paper, published inPhysics Education, presents the development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative training course that started at CERN in 2016 under the name ‘Playing with Protons’ with the aim…
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CMS Control Room: a perfect venue for Friday nights!
Part of the CMS collaboration’s commitment to the ongoing experiments at the LHC is to participate in the detector shifts which occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Being a physicist for a day!
On Monday, 12th March 2012, 16 high-school students from Annecy, France awoke with excitement; they knew it was not going to be an ordinary day!
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CMS participates in “Expanding Your Horizons”
On Saturday, 12th November, a group of 240 young girls aged 11-14, sporting white lab coats, took the Science building of the University of Geneva by storm.
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Kids learn about CERN at the “Futur en Tous Genres” day
The 10- and 11-year-old children of Geneva town hall employees were allowed to skip classes on 10th November to participate in the nation-wide “Futur en Tous Genres” day and find out about different career prospects.
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International Physics Masterclasses 2011
The international physics masterclasses allow high-school students to spend a day at a research institute and analyse real data from high-energy physics experiments.