Beamline For schools

Beamline for schools is a physics competition organized by CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics.
CERN invites teams of high-school students from all over the world to prepare the proposal for an experiment that can be performed at a particle accelerator test beam facility. The winning teams travel to a leading research laboratory (such as CERN,DESY or ELSA) to execute their own experiment alongside professional scientists. It is designed to make particle physics accessible, teamwork-driven, and highly practical for young scientists.

SSVI provides 15 BRESSER 80/640 NANO telescopes as special outreach prices. These are signed by 5 Nobelprize Laureats, the director-general of CERN, Mark Thompson, and the Beamline For Schools organizing team.
Want a chance to win a telescope? All you need to do is organise a science outreach activity in your community. This can be in the form of a physics lesson a project or an introduction activity to a target group. The key is to make it inclusive and share your passion for science with those who have limited access to it. NOTE: This is reserved to BL4S teams. Therefore a proposal for a particle physics experiment is required as well.

More information about BL4S
More information about the Outreach Award

Behind the scenes

A gathering of brilliant minds!

Left to right, top:
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting sun like star.
Gerard 't Hooft, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.

Left to right, bottom:
Francois Englert, awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of the mechanism contributing to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
Samuel Ting, awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
Fabiola Gianotti, Former Director-General of CERN since 2026 and ATLAS spokesperson during the discovery of the Higgs Boson. 




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