Tag: Children
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A day of ICT workshops for girls at the Globe
A day of ICT workshops for girls at the Globe On 25 April 2019 CERN held workshops on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for about 100 girls aged 6 to 14 at the Globe of Science and innovation Initiated by the Union of Communications (ITU), the International Girls in ICT Day aims to encourage and
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950 pupils in scientists’ shoes
950 pupils in scientists’ shoes The project Be a Scientist encountered a great success again for its 2019 edition For 3 months, 43 teachers and over 950 pupils have tried to find out what was the content of mystery boxes, in the way CERN scientists look for invisible elementary particles. Classes from Geneva, Ain and
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When maths become superstars at the Globe
When maths become superstars at the Globe On Thursday 24 January, 350 delighted spectators had the opportunity to find out that mathematics can be both funny and poetic thanks to the show “Mad Maths”, written by Olivier Faliez and Kevin Lapin On Thursday 24 January, 350 delighted spectators had the opportunity to find out that
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Inspiring tomorrow’s coders
Inspiring tomorrow’s coders CERN develops and hosts various activities to encourage female students to take up science subjects and women to enter the fields of science, technology and engineering. CERN develops and hosts various activities to encourage female students to take up science subjects and women to enter the fields of science, technology and engineering.
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Django Girls programming workshop: there are places left!
Django Girls programming workshop: there are places left! You’re a female student aged 15 and above? You would like to learn how to build your own website? Take part in Django Girls, a free programming workshop exclusively for girls – with no fuss and glitter! You’re a female student aged 15 and above? You would
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Devoxx4Kids, a conference for budding geeks
Devoxx4Kids, a conference for budding geeks On Sunday 26 February, CERN hosted the latest edition of Devoxxkids, a series of computing, robotics and electronics workshops for kids. The event was organised in the context of the VoxxedDays CERN developers conference, held at CERN the previous day. Various workshops – “Minis” for the 4-6 year-olds, “Kids”
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Django Girls – Let the coding begin
Django Girls – Let the coding begin Who would ever think of spending a full Saturday indoors, coding for several hours? Highly motivated Django Girls participants! Who would ever think of spending a full Saturday indoors, coding for several hours, instead of enjoying a warm, sunny spring day? Highly motivated Django Girls participants! But what
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Debugging the gender gap
Debugging the gender gap The first Django Girls event in Geneva took place at CERN last weekend A Django girls workshop organised by the R0SEH1PSters community from Geneva and supported by the CERN diversity team and the IT department took place at IdeaSquare on 26th and 27th February. Django Girls is a volunteer-run organisation with
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The Universe as seen by children under the Christmas tree
The Universe as seen by children under the Christmas tree Two drawing contests organised by CERN to which local schools took part are now the subjects of a book “If you had to draw me the Universe…” (original title “Si tu devais me dessiner l’Univers…”), what colour would it be? Would it be hot or
