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Become a Higgs Hunter

HiggsHunters is the first mass-participation citizen science project for the Large Hadron Collider, allowing non-experts to get directly involved in physics analysis. Since its launch in 2014 on the Zooniverse platform, over 30,000 people from 179…

Playing with Protons: Engaging Teachers to Engage K-6 Students with Science, Technology and Innovation

There is widespread consensus among science education researchers that learning science should begin early in every child’s schooling. Among many good reasons, one stands out clearly: “Children naturally enjoy observing and thinking about nature”[1…

Help the Higgs to find its siblings

A citizen science project, called HiggsHunters gives everyone the chance to help search for the Higgs boson's relatives. Volunteers are searching through thousands of images from the ATLAS experiment on the HiggsHunters.org (link is external) …

10th joint EPPCN & IPPOG meeting held at CERN

The 10th meeting of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) was held at CERN from the 5th to the 7th of November 2015. IPPOG is an international network of physicists, science communicators and educators from all CERN member…

First public release of the Virtual Atom Smasher

In May 2015, the first public release was made of Virtual Atom Smasher, an educational game platform that was developed by a partnership between CERN and Citizen Cyberlab. During the Challenge, more than 19 billion particle collisions in the LHC and…

Joining efforts to reach out with particle physics

After the Higgs, how to best communicate LHC as a discovery machine? How to bring the masterclasses to new countries, age groups and settings? What makes a good educational game? How to join efforts in the existing national cosmic ray detector…

New Book: "60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries"

The upcoming book 60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries, edited by Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella traces CERN's exciting journey from its creation in the 1950s to the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2012. It presents the results that…

TEDxCERN is back!

What are the big ideas in science that will help us address tomorrow’s major global challenges? Hosted by Brian Cox (Manchester and ATLAS), TEDxCERN will bring together inspirational speakers from around the world who have ideas worth sharing. The…

CERN prepares beam line for schools

On 7 September, the winners of the Beam line for schools competition will arrive at CERN to claim their prizes. The two teams of high-school students – Odysseus' Comrades from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and Dominicuscollege from…

Inauguration of the S'cool Lab

On 3 July 2014, the new CERN “S’cool Lab” was inaugurated, occupying about 200 m2 in the lower part of the Microcosm building. The idea behind S’cool Lab is to allow groups of school students visiting CERN to become acquainted with experiments…

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