Work has begun on installing the EEE Telescope at the historic headquarters of the Centro Fermi.
Researchers of the EEE Project have installed the support structure and the chambers of the future 64th EEE telescope in the lab equipped in the historical building of Centro Fermi. The chambers were assembled at CERN in Geneva by students of the EEE Project. The chambers were then shipped to Centro Fermi and installed. The […]
Hunting for cosmic rays underground
As part of the EEE Project, interesting measurements are underway concerning the flux of cosmic muons in the Sulcis Iglesiente mines, in Sardinia. In the mine of Nuraxi Figus three portable muon detectors, called “EEE cosmic boxes”, have been collecting data for months in order to measure the effect of attenuation of the cosmic particle […]
The Lab Boat event restarts with the Adriatica boat in the Sea of Sardinia
The second edition of the Lab Boat event has set sail again on 4th may, with the purpose of involving middle and high school students in scientific labs and lessons during the circumnavigation of Sardinia on the Adriatica sailing ship. This “Adriatica” is the same 21m long sailboat become famous in the popular tv show “velisti […]
The “Primo Levi” Institute of Quartu Sant’Elena collaborates with EEE for the School-Work Alternation Project
During October, November and December 2018, some students of the “Primo Levi” institute, Quartu Sant’Elena (CA) contributed to the EEE Project, within the ASL Project, with the assembly of 60 DC-DC converters. They will be used to supply HV to the MRPC chambers in several telescopes. The students, specialized in electronics, Marco Canneva and Riccardo […]
10th Conference of the Fermi Centre Projects – EEE Project
As a good practice, 2019 has already began for the schools of the EEE Project. A meeting involving 40 schools and 160 among students, teachers and researchers, has been held in Turin, within the beautiful auditorium of the Cavallerizza Reale at the University of Turin. The leitmotif of the three days of studies and lectures, […]
Bring Science into the hearth of the youngs
On January 25th 2019, at the “Scipione Staffa” Institute in Trinitapoli (BT), a conference was held, about the Extreme Energy Events activities and, in particular, the PolarquEEEst2018 mission. The headmaster Prof. Carmine Gissi chaired the conference, highlighting the importance of «Doing experimental science in schools» and the necessity to apply new didactic models which can […]
“Physics Tells… four stories of experiments”, a journey created by the students of the EEE Project at the “Scacchi” High School in Bari
On the 30th of November and the 1st of December the educational event titled “Physics tells… stories of four experiments” took place in the laboratories of Liceo scientifico “A. Scacchi” in Bari. It was an itinerary which was accomplished and led by the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project students team of the school, whose stages […]
ICD 2018, millions of cosmic tracks analyzed by EEE Project students
On Thursday 29th November 2018 the seventh edition of International Cosmic Day, annually organized by the DESY Research Center has taken place. For the second time the Centro Fermi participated this year to the initiative, replicating the success of the past edition: 680 students of Extreme Energy Events Project, coming from 58 Italian High schools, have […]
The Extreme Energy Events Project: students hunting cosmic rays from the North Pole to Sicily, passing through Cosenza!
“The Extreme Energy Events Project: students hunting for cosmic rays from the North Pole to Sicily pass through Cosenza! “, This is the title of the city conference that was held on December the 3rd at the Camera di Commercio of Cosenza. After the greetings of Prof. Carla Savaglio, school director of the Liceo G.B. […]
Data acquisition with cosmic boxes on the Gargano
Last October 9th, the “Scipione Staffa” Institute of Trinitapoli hosted, for the second time, a delegation of teachers and students from the “Moscow Chemical Lyceum”. The initiative, promoted by the Headmaster professor Carmine Gissi and by professors Giacomo di Staso and Margherita Lafata, representatives of the Extreme Energy Events Project, materialized into a week dedicated […]