A technical meeting of the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi “EEE (Extreme Energy Events) – Science in Schools” Project was held on March 5, 2015, in the meeting room of the Library of the Ministry of the Interior.
The meeting, attended by about twenty Italian and foreign physicists (university professors, researchers from other institutions, and Centro Fermi grantees), aimed to discuss the project’s progress and its most immediate development prospects. The EEE Project, conceived by Prof. Antonino Zichichi to involve young students in an advanced scientific endeavor focused on studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, now includes nearly 50 schools in 28 Italian cities. Conducted by Centro Fermi in collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), and the National Research Council (CNR), the project received significant recognition last year from the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research through a substantial award funding.
Proceedings began with greetings from Dr. Maria Serena Benedetti, Director of the Library of the Ministry of the Interior, who kindly provided the meeting room, and Prof. Luisa Cifarelli, President of Centro Fermi. A more continuous collaboration was hoped for between Centro Fermi and the Library, which holds archives documenting the building that once housed the Royal Physics Institute of the University of Rome and will become Centro Fermi’s headquarters once restoration work is completed.
Following the greetings, technical presentations highlighted the success of the experiment (pilot run) conducted between October and November 2014, and the successful start of the experiment (run1), which will run from March 2 to April 30, 2015, collecting data from 32 cosmic ray telescopes located at participating EEE schools.