Today, my ATLAS Lego model at the ATLAS Visitor Centre1 was briefly featured in a short ‘Sportschau’ report related to the Tour de France, which covered CERN, on the main German broadcaster ARD :)
For those of you speaking German, here’s the link to the clip [in German].
Last Thursday, 3 October 2024, I took part in the Open Day at Garching.
With over 80 venues and activities to visit and take part in, and thousands of people attending, it was quite an event.
I myself took part in the stand activities of the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV), moderated talks and discussions at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and set up another ‘Build Your Own Particle Detector’ (BYOPD) competition as part of the activities of the ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence. Both the MQV stand and the BYOPD activity were well attended and we had quite a number of participants in the BYOPD competition … entries and results soon(ish) to come.
The official website for the Open Day, which I expanded and recoded over the past few weeks, also seems to have done a good job for the 6500 or so unique visitors on that day alone.
Together with colleagues from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Technical University of Munich, and based on the work I did with others in the BYOPD/ErUM-FSP T01 ALICE project, we recently released an article about using LEGO and augmented reality in physics education.
You can find the article here …
Yesterday, I officially received the 2021 Outreach Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physics Society (EPS), that was already announced in May.
I am still very and honoured about the recognition for setting up and running the ‘Build Your Own Particle Detector‘ programme :)
I am very honoured that today it was announced that I am one three people to receive the 2021 Outreach Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physics Society (EPS).
The award is mainly given for setting up ‘Build Your Own Particle Detector‘ as an international outreach programme that reaches to an unusually young audience and for the design of particle-detector interlocking-brick models, by now used at over 60 places around the world.
Find out more about the ‘Build Your Own Particle Detector’ programme, the original model of the ATLAS detector and other experiments not designed by myself, as well as previous and possible future events and workshops at build-your-own-particle-detector.org.
Congrats to Uta and Ken as well :)
