Beamline for Schools

The Beamline for Schools competition offers high-school students the chance to conduct experiments at a real, functioning physics beamline at CERN. More about the competition.

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Apply for the 2020 Beamline for Schools competition

Groups of physics students are invited, along with their teachers, to propose an idea for a particle-physics experiment

Announcement
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20 March, 2020
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Announcement
20 March, 2020

Beamline for Schools 2019 participants present results

The winning teams from this year’s competition have successfully finished their data-collection runs

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08 November, 2019
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08 November, 2019

Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition

Two teams of high-school students, one from the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the West High School in Salt Lake City, USA, have won the 2019 Beamline for Schools competition

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At CERN
24 June, 2019
At CERN
Press release
24 June, 2019

Beamline for Schools: the worldwide competition is growing

Two high-school teams from India and the Philippines conducted their proposed experiments at CERN

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Knowledge sharing
08 October, 2018
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08 October, 2018

Beamline for Schools 2017: a successful story continues

Two high-school teams from Italy and Canada had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully-equipped CERN beamline

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At CERN
10 October, 2017

Students from CERN competition publish research paper

The first ever paper to come from research conducted as part of CERN’s Beamline for Schools competition, has been published in a scientific journal

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At CERN
22 November, 2016

Beamline for Schools 2016: how to be a CERN scientist

Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully equipped CERN beamline

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At CERN
03 October, 2016

Take part in the 2017 Beamline for Schools competition!

Pre-registration is open for the fourth annual Beamline for Schools competition

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At CERN
19 July, 2016

Winners of 2016 Beamline for Schools competition announced

Two teams of high-school students, from Poland and the UK, will travel to CERN in September to conduct experiments using a CERN accelerator beam

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At CERN
13 June, 2016

CERN announces winners of its 2016 beamline for schools competition

CERN today announced the winners of its 2016 Beamline for Schools competition.Two teams of high-school students, “Pyramid hunters” (Poland) and “Relatively Special” (UK), have been selected to carry out their own experiments using a CERN accelerator beam.

Press release
Knowledge sharing
13 June, 2016
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Press release
13 June, 2016

Winners of 2016 Beamline for Schools competition announced

Two teams of high-school students, from Poland and the UK, will travel to CERN in September to conduct experiments using a CERN accelerator beam

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At CERN
13 June, 2016

Beamline for Schools competition 2016 launches today

High-school students: you could win the chance to come to CERN and run a real experiment, register now

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At CERN
17 November, 2015