New Directions in International Masterclasses

Cecire, Kenneth; Richard, Dower,

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.00522

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“…For this reason, physics teachers often choose alternative activities to ensure contact with research organisations that do not require an on-site visit. An example in this sense are the CERN International Masterclasses [12,13], which allow students to work from their schools on real particle physics data, and discuss the related analysis together with CERN researchers during a video-conference. In this way, participants can virtually walk into a scientific central control room and get a glance of what they would see entering CERN.…”

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School visits to a physics research laboratory using virtual reality

De Angelis,

Budano,

De Pietro

et al. 2023

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School visits to research laboratories or facilities represent a unique way to bring students closer to science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers. However, such visits can be very expensive for students and teachers, in terms of both time and money. In this paper, we present a possible alternative to on-site visits consisting in an activity addressed to high school students that makes use of a VR application to make them "enter" into a particle physics experiment. This proposal can represent a valid way of guaranteeing a visit to a research centre for all schools, regardless of their social or geographical origin. We describe the tests we carried out with a focus group of teachers and their students, and the obtained results.

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confidence: 99%