Category: Type:Lab & Visit Center
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VR initiatives across the LHC experiments
Virtual reality generates a virtual 3D environment, recreating the detector and its caverns with 3D models. It enables immersive and interactive visits, and is usable even during data taking and remotely.
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CERN Science Gateway
The CERN Science Gateway is an education and outreach center consisting of immersive multimedia exhibits, hands-on lab workshops, science shows, events that blend science and culture, and tours around the facility.
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IceCube Education & Outreach Activities
IceCube engages a local, national, and international audience through public outreach events like science festivals and educational game sessions, but also through educational programs during masterclasses and after school programs. They have also developed materials like comics or VR games, partnered with artists, and launched a citizen science project: Name That Neutrino.
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Ligo-Virgo-Kagra outreach activities
The Ligo-Virgo-Kagra International Collaboration engages in numerous outreach activities, both in schools with the Einstein-First Project or Masterclasses, and during public events like festivals with the Big Bang Machine Van, a mobile immersive installation. Online, they contribute to writing new Wikipedia pages and actively participate in communication through social media.
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Outreach Activities
The SLAC Laboratory hosts many outreach activities, including tours, monthly lectures, informal science talks, and other public events. It also organizes a one-week summer camp for high school girls and actively participates in supporting the international physics community like in Africa and Nepal.
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Quantum Outreach @ FNAL Lederman Science Center
Quantum Information Science (QIS) materials are usually for advanced students, leaving out most students. To address this issue, Fermilab developed Portable Exhibits for classrooms with hands-on activities for the students. They also developed permanent exhibits at the Lederman Science Center with activities and explanation.
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Outreach activities at LIP
The LIP hosts a lot of outreach activities, from visits to science fairs and talks in schools. They engage in international events such as the Portuguese teachers’ program, European Researchers’ Night, and International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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Discover the Universe with Romania@CERN (DUROCERN)
The Institute of Atomic Physics hosts DUROCERN, an Educational and Outreach Centre, on its 2nd floor. It showcases the main facilities of CERN through interactive exhibitions and workshops. It also presents the main contributions made by Romanian teams to CERN experiments.
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Outreach at the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory is heavily invested in outreach activities through Science Fairs and Women in Science projects. They have organized “PAO goes to school” since 2009, visiting a total of 29 schools, followed by a tour of the Observatory.
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HAWC outreach activities
The HAWC collaboration participates in outreach activities like science fairs, public outreach talks, and virtual visits. They are heavily involved in the Noche de las Estrellas, a festival held annually in Mexico since 2009.