Kilgraston pupils visit CERN
Last week, five students were given the amazing opportunity to travel to Geneva to visit CERN, the largest particle physics lab in the world. We arrived in Geneva late on Thursday night and stayed in a hostel near the city centre until Sunday morning.
On Friday we spent the day exploring the city. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day – something we all felt we needed! The architecture was stunning, and we were amazed by the Jet d’Eau – the huge fountain in the middle of the lake, which we all got soaked by from running underneath! We also visited a science museum, which was full of fascinating old experiments. In the evening, we enjoyed a delicious meal of a traditional Swiss cheese fondue.
On Saturday we went to CERN: in the morning we had a guided tour of parts of it, including the Control Centre, with all the physics being explained to us along the way. After lunch we went to the visitor centre, which had a lot of interactive games and displays to help us learn and understand the physics behind CERN, from looking inside prototypes of parts of the collider to kicking protons at each other and creating our own stars!
Phoebe, Upper Fifth
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