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schools challenge</span> </h1> <article data-history-node-id="727" about="/en/defi" typeof="schema:WebPage" class="page full clearfix"> <span property="schema:name" content="The schools challenge" class="hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div property="schema:text" class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><h4>CERN scientists have a few months to find out what’s inside two mysterious boxes without opening them!</h4> <p>As the <a href="https://voisins.cern/en/be-scientist"><em>Be a Scientist</em></a> project reaches its 10th anniversary, the tables are turned as primary school pupils set a challenge for CERN… and the clock is ticking!</p> <p>Launched in 2011, the <em>Be a Scientist </em>educational programme is the result of a collaboration between institutions on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border: the University of Geneva (<a href="https://scienscope.unige.ch/physiscope/">Physiscope</a> and the <a href="https://www.unige.ch/fapse/ldes/didactique-des-sciences/">Laboratory of Didactics and Science Epistemology</a>), the <a href="https://www.ge.ch/organisation/departement-instruction-publique-formation-jeunesse-dip">Department of Public Education</a> (Geneva) and the <a href="https://www.education.gouv.fr/">Ministry of Education</a> (France).</p> <p>Every year, about 800 pupils aged 8 to 12 from Geneva, Ain and Haute-Savoie follow in scientists’ footsteps by studying the scientific research process. Like researchers who are looking for invisible particles, the pupils make hypotheses, collect data and use evidence as they set out to identify the contents of boxes provided by CERN. One small catch – they are not allowed to open the boxes or damage them in any way.</p> <p>This anniversary seemed a good time to switch roles and throw the challenge back to CERN. Pupils from Jean de la Fontaine (Prévessin-Moëns, France) and Cérésole (Petit-Lancy, Switzerland) schools, who participated in the <em>Be a Scientist </em>project in 2020/2021, have invited the CERN community to take up the mysterious boxes challenge. In the utmost secrecy, the pupils have hidden various objects in two boxes, which they hope will give scientists a hard time and keep them busy for the next months!<br> </p> <blockquote> <p>We challenge you! […] It’s your turn! Write things down so you don’t forget them. We advise you to work as a team, because it’s harder on your own!</p> <p>(pupil from Cérésole school, Petit-Lancy, Switzerland)</p> </blockquote> <p> <video controls height="45%" style="display:block; margin: 0 auto;" width="80%"><source src="https://videos.cern.ch/api/files/7e663707-29b1-4b6a-be54-58def1c7b607/720p.mp4"></video> </p> <p>Read more about the progress of the investigations conducted by the CERN community below and visit this site for regular updates on the challenge.</p> </div> </div> </article> <section class="views-element-container block block-views block-views-blockdefi-dps-des-ecoles-block-1 clearfix" id="block-views-block-defi-dps-des-ecoles-block-1"> <div class="form-group"> <div class="teaser-list view view-defi-dps-des-ecoles view-id-defi_dps_des_ecoles view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-f02ed79e2578d156b37051b624d3dd33b290265fac5a674f6604c66e8e1a9d6a cern-view-display-block cern-view-display-block_1 clearfix"> <div class="view-content clearfix"> <div class="horizontal-boxes-row views-row"> <div class="preview-list-component clearfix"> <div class="preview-list-image" style="background: #dddddd url(//cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-PHOTO-202205-080-87/file?size=large) no-repeat center center / cover"> </div> <div class="preview-list-news-info"> <h3 class="preview-list-title"> <h3> <a href="/en/schools-challenge-time-open-boxes" hreflang="en">The Schools Challenge: time to open the boxes!</a> </h3> </h3> <div class="preview-list-strap"> <p> On Friday, 13 May, local primary schoolchildren attended an event in the Globe of Science and Innovation to reveal the contents of boxes they had carefully prepared as a challenge for CERN’s scientists. </p> </div> <div class="preview-list-date" > <time datetime="2022-05-23T12:00:00Z">05/23/2022 - 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