Tag: Trainings & School project
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Arts & science across Italy: from high-schools to CERN
The main idea is to engage high school students with science using artistic languages, regardless of students’ specific skills or level of knowledge. The project begins with an educational phase and is followed by an arts-based competition between teams of students.
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The ATLAS4Teachers open data app
The ATLAS outreach and open data group developed a new workshop based on the Knowledge Gap Theory: making it easier for people to find knowledge can make a significant difference.
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Quarknet Cosmic Rays activities
Quarknet is involved in multiple cosmic rays activities through long-term collaboration with high school teachers and scientists. They participate in the International Muon Week, in which paired schools collect and analyze data and share results. QuarkNet is also hosting a Muography projet to search for hidden chambers at Chichen Itza (Mexico).
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Muon Detectives and HERA: Muon Research Opportunities for Australian Secondary Students
Muon Detectives is a collaborative project studying high-altitude muons. It makes use of EduMOD Classroom Muon Detectors to teach students about concepts ranging from special relativity to statistics. The HERA project is an international collaboration in which each participating team, consisting of a mentoring university and a high school, will launch high-altitude balloons equipped with…
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The “Fun-Q” muography project
Fun-Q is a high school students project of muography (muon tomography) of Japanese ancient mounds (Ko-Fun古墳) using Cosmic ray detector OSECHI (Outreach & Science Education Cosmic-ray Hunting Instrument). The collaborative project at the interface between education, physics and archaeology, promotes students’ understanding of interdisciplinarity and respect for different fields.
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Building wire chambers during national teachers programmes in Budapest and CERN@Wigner
Since 2016, the Hungarian CERN teacher program hold two-evening workshops on constructing Multiwire Proportional Chambers. Due to its success, the workshop was made available to students. It is a good exercice that fosters team building and cooperation.
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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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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…