Category: Audience:Primary School Level (4-12)
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INFN kids: physics and comics
INFN Kids is a national outreach initiative, dedicated to children of primary and middle schools ages. Leo and Alice discover physics via comics, tales and games. The INFN Kids project includes many structures in Italy. Leo and Alice can found in festivals, open workshop events and even in schools with play-edic workshops.
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LHC: connect the dots! A simple outreach activity to explain how particle detectors work
Participants receive a sheet of paper showing a simplified event occurring within a typical particle detector. Their task is to reconstruct the tracks of particles by drawing them on paper and analyzing the event. Six differents events are available in multiple difficulty level.
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Women and Girls in Science and Technology
In celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, local schools hosted one-hour presentations by women working in STEM fields over the course of a week. This event is held in the canton of Geneva, the district of Nyon, and the departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie.
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Particle Physics for Babies Book
The book is a particle physics talk without any words, it contains colorful physics-themed images that attract the attention of children. Together with the book there are free downloadable captions that allow parents/adults to learn about the LHC while reading them! The project comes from the reflection of a father who asked himself how to…