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CERN hosts the special award winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2014
Today all over France, students answered questions about CERN in their science exams as part of the Baccalauréat Général
Students at the Challenge Based Innovation course presented prototypes of platforms to simplify meetings and enhance learning in autistic children
High-school physics teacher Andreas Valadakis and his class of Greek students visit CERN
Comic-book artist Remco Polman delivers the first pages of a comic about particle physics, co-written with high school students on a visit to CERN
Young winners of the CERN prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) visited the laboratory last week
Watch students and teachers from two schools in central Poland searching proton collisions from the LHC for signs of new particles
This summer, seven young coding wizzes contributed to CERN projects through the Google Summer of Code program
The African School of Physics was held in Ghana this summer, where lecturers from CERN shared their expertise with 50 motivated students
CERN welcomed 279 young scientists from 71 nations this year on its Summer Students Programme