cern@school becky parker

Dr Becky ParkerThe Langton Star Centre

Simon Langton Grammar School for BoysCanterbury, UK

CERN@school, linked up through the Grid - when students get into real physics research

University of California, Berkeley

Space Science Laboratory7 Gauss Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-74USA

Commissariat à

l'Energie  Atomique

CEA

Laboratory of Integration of Systems and Technologies

(LIST)

CEA/Saclay, DIMRI,  91191 Gif-sur-Yvette

Cédex, France

European Organizati

on for Nuclear

Research CERN

Medipix Team 1211 Geneva 23,

Switzerland

Czech Academy of Sciences

Institute of PhysicsNa Slovance 2, 18221

Praha 8, Czech Republic

Czech Technical University in Prague

(CTU)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP)

Horska 3a/22, CZ-12800 Praha 2 - Albertov, Czech

Republic

Friedrich-Alexander

- Universitä

t Erlangen-Nürnberg

(FAU)

Physikalisches Institut , Arbeitsgruppe SPOC

Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

European Synchrotr

on Radiation Facility ESRF

Instruments Support Group ISG

BP 220, 38043 Grenoble Cédex, France

Albert-Ludwigs- Universitä

t Freiburg-i.B.

Fakultät für Physik , Arbeitsgruppe

Halbleiterdetektoren

Hermann-Herder-Str. 3b, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

University of

Glasgow

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Detector group

The Kelvin Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United

Kingdom

University of

HoustonPhysics Department

Houston,Texas 77204-5005

USA

Medical Research Council

MRC

Laboratory of Molecular Biology LMB

Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United Kingdom

Mid-Sweden

University (Mitthögsk

olan) MSU

  85170 Sundsvall, Sweden

Università di Napoli Federico II

Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche , Medical

Physics MED

Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

National Institute

for Nuclear

and High-Energy

Physics NIKHEF

Pixel Team

Kruislaan 409, Postbus 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, The

Netherlands

Università di Pisa

Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys (We have girls in the sixth form)

Aim to give students opportunities to work alongside scientists and engineers so that they see the excitement and challenge involved and it encourages them into physics and engineering at University.

Between ½ - 1% of the young men and women who go to University to study physics in the UK come from our school.

In 2007 on our CERN trip we visited the Medipix laboratories on site and met Dr Michael Campbellspokesman for the Medipix collaborations

ALICE detector

Space Experiment Competition

December 2007 a team of sixth form students entered a National Space Competition run by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the British National Space Centre.

Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector

Designed an experiment using Timepix detectors to collect cosmic ray data in Low Earth Orbit.Raised extra funding to space qualify the Timepix chips.

University of California, Berkeley

Space Science Laboratory7 Gauss Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-74USA

Commissariat à

l'Energie  Atomique

CEA

Laboratory of Integration of Systems and Technologies

(LIST)

CEA/Saclay, DIMRI,  91191 Gif-sur-Yvette

Cédex, France

European Organizati

on for Nuclear

Research CERN

Medipix Team 1211 Geneva 23,

Switzerland

Czech Academy of Sciences

Institute of PhysicsNa Slovance 2, 18221

Praha 8, Czech Republic

Czech Technical University in Prague

(CTU)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP)

Horska 3a/22, CZ-12800 Praha 2 - Albertov, Czech

Republic

Friedrich-Alexander

- Universitä

t Erlangen-Nürnberg

(FAU)

Physikalisches Institut , Arbeitsgruppe SPOC

Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

European Synchrotr

on Radiation Facility ESRF

Instruments Support Group ISG

BP 220, 38043 Grenoble Cédex, France

Albert-Ludwigs- Universitä

t Freiburg-i.B.

Fakultät für Physik , Arbeitsgruppe

Halbleiterdetektoren

Hermann-Herder-Str. 3b, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

University of

Glasgow

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Detector group

The Kelvin Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United

Kingdom

University of

HoustonPhysics Department

Houston,Texas 77204-5005

USA

Medical Research Council

MRC

Laboratory of Molecular Biology LMB

Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United Kingdom

Mid-Sweden

University (Mitthögsk

olan) MSU

  85170 Sundsvall, Sweden

Università di Napoli Federico II

Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche , Medical Physics

MED

Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

National Institute

for Nuclear

and High-Energy Physics NIKHEF

Pixel Team

Kruislaan 409, Postbus 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, The

Netherlands

Università di Pisa

LUCID will fly on a Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd satellite TechDemoSat – 1 in early 2012.NASA would like a tap on the data

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ESMOEuropean Student Moon Orbiter

• Norton Knatchbull - Ashford• Fort Pitt - Rochester• Canterbury High – Canterbury• Simon Langton Boys – Canterbury• Cranbrook School – Cranbrook• Dartford Girls - Dartford• Dover Boys – Dover• St Edmunds - Canterbury• Oakwood Park – Maidstone• Maidstone Girls’ – Maidstone• Bennett Memorial – Tunbridge Wells

Pilot Schools

• All eleven schools up and running

• Radioactivity experiments

• Recording data and uploading to server

• CLEAR video

FTPServer

GridPP

School1

School 2

School 3

website

Data Up

Data down

When data rates increase

CERN@school

CERN@school detectors in schools will use GridPP

Students are involved in a major research collaboration

Students are the players in CERN/NASA/ESA

project - inspirational

There look to be interesting possibilities for doing physics with the network of CERN@school detectors and LUCID linked up through GridPP. This is a reproducible model.

I believe the project will help to inspire the next generation of physicists and engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians in our schools, keep teachers inspired and encourage more into the profession.

Many thanks