Beamline for Schools Competition winners announced

CERN today announced the winners of its first beamline for schools competition. Following almost 300 submissions from school groups around the world, two teams have been selected to come to CERN to carry out their own experiments at a CERN beamline. The winners are the “Odysseus' Comrades” team from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and the “Dominicuscollege” team from Dominicus College in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

The race is on for Beamline for Schools teams

With registration closed, the 455 teams now have just 55 days to say why they should win the CERN beamline for schools competition.

Schools competition: Win a beamline

What if high-school students could come to CERN for more than just a visit? What if they could come as researchers, conducting real experiments on a CERN proton beamline? Take shifts, have lunch with real researchers, Nobel prize winners even, and experience the ins and outs of taking data at a real accelerator?