Tag: Mélissa Samson
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Record participation in the 2024 Women and Girls in Science and Technology event!
Record participation in the 2024 Women and Girls in Science and Technology event! In the course of a week, more than 5800 local schoolchildren spent time with female science ambassadors. From 5 to 9 February, more than eighty female ambassadors from CERN, the University of Geneva, EPFL and LAPP spoke to 5800 local pupils, giving
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Futur en tous genres 2023 at CERN
Futur en tous genres 2023 at CERN Experiences and workshops that inspire future careers! On Thursday, 9 November 2023, CERN once again took part in the Futur en tous genres event. The aim of this initiative is to make schoolchildren aware of the diverse range of careers available to them and to encourage them to
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Registration is now open for the 2024 edition of Women and Girls in Science and Technology!
Registration is now open for the 2024 edition of Women and Girls in Science and Technology! From 5 to 9 February 2024, ambassadors for women and girls in science will be visiting local schools to talk to pupils about their profession. Register your class now! CERN, the UNIGE Faculty of Science, EPFL and the Laboratoire
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The 12th “Partage ta science” symposium took place at CERN
The 12th “Partage ta science” symposium took place at CERN Seven students from secondary schools in the Pays de Gex and Geneva presented their final-year work at a scientific symposium organised by young people, for young people. On Friday, 13 October 2023, CERN welcomed students from secondary schools in Switzerland and France to the cross-border
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Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project
Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project For 684 budding scientists from schools in the local area, the 11th edition of the Be a scientist project wrapped up on Thursday, 11 May 2023. For four months, 30 teachers and 684 schoolchildren aged from 7 to 12 from the Geneva, Ain and
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Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang
Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang The Passport to the Big Bang discovery trail is celebrating its tenth anniversary – ten years during which local people have been able to find out about science and technology while cycling around the France-Geneva countryside. Are ugly quarks the same as beauty antiquarks? Can neutrinos
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The 2023 Django Girls Geneva event was a resounding success!
The 2023 Django Girls Geneva event was a resounding success! Last weekend, 34 “Django Girls” discovered the world of computer programming and created their first website under the guidance of CERN mentors On 21 and 22 April 2023, after two consecutive fully online events, CERN once again hosted an in-person Django Girls Geneva workshop at
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Around a hundred budding young programmers took part in the DevoXX4Kids workshops at CERN
Around a hundred budding young programmers took part in the DevoXX4Kids workshops at CERN Young people aged from 4 to 15 spent a day getting to grips with new technologies in a fun and intuitive way during the DevoXX4Kids workshops, held at CERN. On Saturday, 11 March 2023, CERN hosted DevoXX4Kids – a day of
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Applications are now open for the Django Girls programming workshop!
Applications are now open for the Django Girls programming workshop! The Django Girls programming workshop, run by CERN engineers for girls and women aged 15 and over, is returning to CERN on 21 and 22 April 2023. Sign up now! The International Girls in ICT Day (ICT = information and communication technologies) will be celebrated
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Registration for DevoXX4Kids@CERN is now open
Registration for DevoXX4Kids@CERN is now open The conference for budding programmers, aged 4 to 15, is returning to CERN in 2023 CERN will once again play host to DevoXX4Kids on Saturday, 11 March 2023, in the Globe of Science and Innovation. Throughout the day, workshops will be run (in French) for inquisitive youngsters aged 4