CERN announces winners of its first beam line for schools competition

Geneva, 6 June 2014. CERN today announced the winners of its first beam line for schools competition. Following almost 300 submissions from school groups around the world, two teams have been selected to come to CERN to carry out their own experiments at a CERN beam line. The winners are the "Odysseus' Comrades" team from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and the "Dominicuscollege" team from Dominicus College in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. To coincide with CERN's 60th anniversary this year, the laboratory launched the beam line for schools competition. The idea is to make a fully equipped beam line available for high-school students to run an experiment in the same way that the laboratory's researchers do. "When we first had the idea of offering a beam line to schools, I never expected such a fantastic range of proposals from around the world," said Christoph Rembser, of the initiative, "I've been amazed by the creativity and motivation of the students who entered.