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The flagship activity of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is the International Masterclasses (IMC) in particle physics. This very successful programme brings cutting-edge science to high-school students, making them scientists for a day. Invited to a university or laboratory, the students spend a day of immersion in particle physics, learning about the standard model and beyond, about experimental methods, detectors and accelerators. The hands-on part of the activity involves analysis of real data from an experiment, followed by discussion of the results. A videoconference at the end of the day with groups from other countries gives them the opportunity to discuss further, ask questions to scientists acting as moderators and participate in a quiz. The data used for the hands-on part were initially from LEP experiments; with the turn-on of the LHC, measurements based on data from ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb were introduced. In the last years there has been a spectacular broadening of the physics content of the masterclasses, with data from BELLE II at KEK, from neutrino experiments (MINERvA, NOvA at Fermilab), from astroparticle physics (the Pierre Auger Observatory) and medical applications of our field.
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