IdeaSquare Planet workshop in NYC with Ramaz high school

10 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 13 Nov 2025, 17:00 US/Eastern

Laura Wirtavuori

IdeaSquare Planet - 🌎 🪐 

Embark on an adventure of a lifetime to a distant exoplanet - within this immense challenge you will focus on specific questions related to your trip.

After solving complex systemic challenge on the exoplanet, you will journey back to Earth. What can we learn from this imaginary adventure of creativity?

Be curious, be open, learn.

Monday 10 November

1 Opening talk: On curiosity

Speaker: Mario Livio

2 CERN and IdeaSquare

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

3 Getting to know each other and forming teams

12:00 Lunch and meeting your team

4 Your adventure starts here

Presenting the first part of the adventure

Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

5 teamwork

Tuesday 11 November

6 Morning coffee and stories from physics and CERN

Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

7 teamwork

12:00 Lunch

8 teamwork and preparing to present

9 First presentations - Planet Y

Wednesday 12 November

10 Reflection on first part of adventure

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

11 Coming back to Earth - presentation of second part of the adventure

12 teamwork

13:00 Lunch

13 Teamwork

Thursday 13 November

14 Teamwork

11:30 Lunch

15 Presentations on coming back to Earth

16 Reflection

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

17 Closing talk: is the Earth exceptional?

Speaker: Mario Livio