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ALICE HEPscape! in Finland
ALICE HEPscape! is an ALICE themed escape room based on the original HEPscape from the INFN, about ALICE, the data taking process, the type of physics studied at ALICE. It aims to be a fun introduction to some physics topics, which can then be further discussed after the game.
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Engaging Young Minds with Particle Physics
The Outreach team at Münster University identified that in Germany, students usually decide whether or not to continue their physics education around the age of 15. To address the problem, they focused on students aged 10 to 15 to give them a real insight into particle physics research. They also created the Y-Phi (Young Physicists)…
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IPPOG Masterclass for non-scientific Personnel
The project is based on the fact that 97% of CERN’s staff are non-scientists. The goal is to adapt the masterclass intended for students to benefit non-scientific personnel, to offer them hands-on experience and insight into the work of their scientist colleagues. These sessions improve their capacity to support the organization’s mission and outreach.
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Quarktastic Instagram Account
Quarktastic is an istagram account that makes use of the fact that everyone is connected to social media at least a few hours per day. It is more used than traditonnal blogging and enable many formats. LIVEs are very interactive and impromptu, vide of life at CERN easily go viral, and fun contents like meme…
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Future Collider Experiment: an educational tool for graduate students
The Future Collider Experiment (FCE) app is a platform-agnostic analysis tool. It provides a sneak peek into the particle physics processes that will become available at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) in a user-friendly environment. A typical workshop can take the format of two research groups (IDEA and CLD), studying FCC-ee collisions at the four…
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Tactile quark puzzle
The Spherical Quark-Puzzle provides a 3D visualisation of the quark model of hadrons and the basic conditions under which quarks form hadrons (e.g. neutrons or protons), as dictated by quantum chromodynamics. As a representation of the SU(3) symmetry, the predisposed symmetry of a platonic solid, the (spherical) dodecahedron is used to build all hadrons from…
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Outreach training at CERN Schools of Physics
Since 2014 specific outreach/media trainings were introduced in the programe of the European Schools. After a 90-minutes communication training, all students are involved in a group project to prepare a short presentation about a physics topic at a level suitable for the general public with a jury that gives feedback and awards a token “prize”…
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Cosmic Piano: analysing the sound of the Universe
The Cosmic Piano is an innovative outreach tool designed to detect muons from air showers produced by cosmic rays colliding with the atmosphere. It consists of scintillator-based modules with avalanche photodiodes (APD) readout, which produce a musical note and a flash of light whenever a muon passes through one of them and triggers its electronics.…
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Exographer, a videogame based on particle physics
Exographer is an exploration game based on particle physics. In Exographer, players use gluonic boots or a photon sphere to overcome obstacles while discovering, one by one, all the elementary particles of the Standard Model. The levels are inspired by real laboratories (giant colliders and detectors, neutrino underground facilities, cosmic ray observatories…). A lost civilization…
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Early Morning Coffee at CERN
Emc2 is a Monthly podcast of roughly 30 minutes hosted with guest scientists and other experts at a coffee table. Each episode focus on a specific topic about particle physics.