CERN Beamline for Schools — Physics Experiment Competition for High School Students
High school teams aged 16+ propose their own physics experiment. The two best teams travel to CERN (Switzerland) to conduct their experiment on a real particle accelerator.
- Age
- 16–17 yrs
- Cost
- Free
- Applications
- Applications closed
- Format
- Online and in person
- Where
- Online, Switzerland
- Organiser
- CERN
Who can apply
- Age 16–17 yrs
- Команда школярів пропонує власний експеримент, переможці їдуть
Physics Competition for High School Students
BL4S is a competition where high school teams from around the world propose an experiment they want to conduct at a particle accelerator beamline.
Where? This competition is organized by CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) in collaboration with DESY (Hamburg, Germany) and ELSA (University of Bonn, Germany).
What's the prize? Teams with the best proposals win a trip to one of these laboratories to conduct experiments on a fully equipped beamline.
Competition structure: For each location, the following teams will be invited: CERN will invite 2 teams, DESY will invite 2 teams, ELSA will invite 1 team. All participants with accepted proposals will receive a participation certificate. Additional prizes for the best teams, as well as for the best videos and science outreach.
How to participate: Teams propose their experiments, experts evaluate the proposals, winners are announced and conduct their experiments.
Age group: 16–17 years old (high school students).