Category: Audience:Scientific Community
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German outreach network Netzwerk Teilchenwelt
German outreach network Netzwerk Teilchenwelt Credit : Netzwerk Teilchenwelt Abstract The Netzwerk Teilchenwelt is a German network that promotes outreach activities and exchange in the community through activities, a shared structure and outreach programs. They host various events such as masterclasses, fellowship programs, themed weeks, meetings with scientists, and Lego-based events. They also train scientists…
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IPPOG Inspired Activities in Brazil
The IPPOG Brasil working group is a network of various actors involved in outreach activities and teaching of high-energy physics. A website hosted by the Brazilian Physical Society serves as a communication channel between the scientific community and the public, exclusively in Portuguese. They run Masterclasses, set up a cosmic ray detector network in high…
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FeynGame : Acquiring Feynman diagrams in a playful way
FeynGame is a Java-based graphical tool for drawing Feynman diagrams which can be exported in any standard image format, or as EPS. FeynGame aims to be educational by allowing users to verify the validity of Feynman diagrams. Additionally, it offers a game where players must link a specific set of initial and final states through…
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The Fellow Program of Netzwerk Teilchenwelt – Keeping young talents attached
The fellow program started in 2017. It takes the form of a multi-step program from masterclass to CERN project week. With tailored trainings for a long term impact. It also manage to maintain 50% females throughout all steps!
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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 to students, for non-scientific personnel, to offer then get hand-on experience and insight into the work of their scientists 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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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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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.