Inaugural UK Playing with Protons for Secondary School Teachers

18 Aug 2025, 09:00 → 22 Aug 2025, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

3179/R-E06 (CERN)

Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham (GB)), Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Bringing together UK KeyStage3 (11-14 years old) School teachers, science education specialists and researchers from CERN, the University of Birmingham and STFC, to develop creative approaches to engage students with physics, discovery and innovation.

Sponsored by the LHC experiments, the Ogden Trust, the University of Birmingham, and the Science & Technology Facility Council UK. 

 

About ATLAS

Monday 18 August

11:30 → 14:00 Group 1 arrival, lunch, and check-in

14:30 → 15:00 Arrival Group 2

15:00 → 15:30 Welcome

Speakers: Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham (GB)), Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

15:30 → 16:30 Ogden Trust: Introductory Workshop

(Note: the slides attached here include the material for all the workshops except one)

Ogden Trust CERN Slide Deck v2.pdf

Ogden Trust CERN Slide Deck v2.pptx

16:30 → 17:00 Film - Introduction to CERN

Discover CERN.mkv

How to run Discover CERN.pdf

17:00 → 18:30 Group 2 Check-în and installation

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Tuesday 19 August

08:30 → 09:30 Visit Synchrocyclotron

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Operation of the SC

10:00 → 13:00 Workshop 1,Processes of science and the Standard model, Workshop 2 Feynman diagrams, and the particle zoo (Odgen Trust+UnivBirm)

Presentation_Lazzeroni.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Workshop 3 Fields are real (Ogden Trust): classroom approach

15:30 → 17:30 Visit to B6 - the 'Heart of CERN'

B6 Photo Exhibition corridor, Billinge Room, Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR)

Speakers: Django Manglunki, Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Dynamic real time accelerator displays

Explanation of Real Time Vistars

LEIR and Ion LHC-filling-E-20230418.pdf

The CERN Accelerator Complex

18:30 → 22:00 Dinner in restaurant 1 (with guests)

Speaker: David Barney (CERN)

DBarneyMaterial.docx

DBarneyMaterial.pdf

Wednesday 20 August

08:30 → 10:30 Workshop4 Circular motion and implementation (Odgen Trust)

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Guest lecture - the World of the Web

Speaker: Robert Cailliau

13:00 → 13:45 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Visit to Lab 2 (CCC and AMS)

Visits to the CERN (Accelerator) Control Centre and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Payload Operations Control Centre.
Building departs from building 40.

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

LHC The guide.pdf

What is AMS

15:00 → 17:00 Visit to CMS

Underground visit to CMS. Thanks to CMS for support.
Bus returns to building 40

Speakers: Leon Joel Kerner, Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

CMS-PersonalJourney_July2025 (2).pdf

CMS-PersonalJourney_July2025 (2).pptx

18:30 → 21:00 Drinks, Dinner and conversation in Geneva

Thursday 21 August

09:15 → 11:15 Visit to Computing Centre, and history walk-around CERN

Web Corridor B1, Data Centre timeline of CERN computers including Wim Klein, (plus home for retired mice and LINAC 4 boundary stone).

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

11:30 → 12:00 Next Steps (Ogden Trust)

12:00 → 13:00 CERN Gateway, Shop, etc.

Optional visit, depending ion departure time

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch and departure

14:00 → 14:30 Leave CERN

Make sure you return your access badges and hostel cards before leaving