Activity Overview

Team up with a physicist to build a working model of an accelerator using simple material, such as a salad bowl, a ping-pong ball and conductive tape.

Point 4 - LHC

Connect a fire hose and a nozzle, turn on the water and try to reach a target.

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Come and watch a play about a quirky character who loves science history and scientists. "Welcome travelers. You are curious, greedy, thirsty for science ... Open your ears, wake up your neurons! We are all children of heaven, between emptiness, light and matter, the Children of the stars! Where does this world come from? How was it created?"

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Watch a play about a physicist who loves the particles that make up matter, including us.

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From 3D printing to vacuum impregnation and the casting of elastic polymers, head here to learn about polymer techniques used at CERN.

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Take part in our electricity and magnetism experiments, listen to the sounds of an accelerator or observe our musical Tesla coil playing a tune. Young visitors may take on their first engineering challenge at our motor-making workshop or play our spot-the-difference game.

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How will the future be shaped by the new trends? Come and discuss about our common future in a programme of talks and debates infused with comedy and theatre.

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Discover robotics and programming with the Poppy Ergo Jr robot. It's simple to learn and use, and it will make you familiar with the science of programming.

Point 5 - CMS

Head to this tent to see a model of the ProtoDUNE detector cryostat, the largest ever cryostat made for a particle-physics experiment. Adults and kids alike will be able to put on the type of garments used by the detector operators and take a souvenir picture at a selfie station. A virtual visit to the future DUNE detector is also available.

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Want to see detectors designed to study neutrinos, the lightest known massive particles? Come to this guided tour of the protoDUNE detectors, prototypes for what will be a much larger liquid-argon DUNE detector at the US Long Baseline Neutrino Facility.

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