Visit CERN (the world’s largest particle physics laboratory) and the Large Hadron Collider on your school trip to Geneva, Switzerland.
On your educational visit to CERN, you’ll enjoy a 3-hour tour of the laboratory site. Your tour will start with a video introduction to CERN, followed by a visit to two areas of the site (such as the control rooms, research facilities or engineering facilities). You’ll also be able to explore the two permanent exhibitions, where you’ll see a scale version of the Large Hadron Collider (unfortunately, the real one isn’t open to the public), and find out more about the scientists who created and maintain it.
This will help your students to understand why science is such an important and exciting subject. Scientists, like those at CERN, are literally discovering what our universe is made of and how it works. No other subject can lead to a job where you get to discover the secrets of our world in quite the same way as science.
For GCSE students, your school trip to CERN will help them to better understand the structure, bonding and properties of matter. And for A-Level students, this is an unmissable visit that will bring nuclear physics and particle theory to life for them.
As well as CERN, Geneva has a few other incredible activities for school groups to enjoy, including an unforgettable visit to the United Nations Office, the History of Science Museum and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum.
