Category: Type:Hands on Activities
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Bubble Chamber Educational Material
Educational material on bubble chambers embedded in interactive worksheets in GeoGebra. This resource allows for a guided exploration of bubble chamber physics through quizzes.
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CERN Experiments in Lego model
Workshop were held to design and construct of 1:40 model of the ALICE detector with pupils and students. Over 100 hours were spent preparing in weekly meetings, plus around two days for building.
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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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Handmade Accelerator Bracelet
Originally created for the SuperKEKB, the bracelets are inspired by particle accelerators from around the world. By making use of 3D printing, they are simple, but visually accurate fun accelerator themed merchandises. They can be made during interactive workshops or distributed in creation kits.
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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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Accel Kitchen: Japanese Junior and Senior High School Cosmic Ray Outreach
The Accel Kitchen is a hands-on particle physics research experience for junior and senior high school students founded in 2020. It takes the form of a mentorship program with remote mentoring, making it the largest junior and senior high school particle physics research support network in Japan. The program provides inexpensive and easy-to-use particle detectors…