Last week ten boys from Year 12 visited the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Accompanied by Mr Smith and Mrs Rourke, the boys flew out on Wednesday and visited CERN on Thursday and Friday before returning home.
The boys visited the CERN computing facility (where the World Wide Web was invented), the antimatter production area and two of the detectors, ATLAS and CMS, where the Higgs Boson was discovered. In CMS (which is in France) the group were able to descend to the detector itself, located 100m underground in a cavern in the Large Hadron Collider tunnel.
The boys had free time in Geneva itself and enjoyed the cultural experience of a beautiful international city.