1. High School Students Internship and Teacher programmes
Jens Vigen
with input from Sascha Marc Schmeling
CERN-Norway Working Group
Tuesday, 26 September 2017

2. HSSIP http://hssip.web.cern.ch/
High School Students Internship Programme
CERN has invited 24 high school students (aged 16-19) to come to CERN for two weeks, to gain practical experience in science, technology, and innovation
National contact
Hilde Lynnebakken, UiO
Planning
Missing ~10 supervisors
15th-28th October 2017

3. 150 applications from 27 schools ~13 times the number of applications received from France if calculated pro rata 
We recognize the good representation from the cities regularly sending classes to visit CERN

4. Good gender distribution of the applications
10 boys and 14 girls have been selected based on
submitted motivation letters and geographical distribution

5. All participants connected on Facebook

6. Hungarians first out
High-School Students Internship Programme during their visit to SM18

7. Norwegian Teacher Programme https://indico.cern.ch/event/636943/
Last held from 26th Feb to 3rd March 2017
20 participating teachers from across the country
National contact
Kaja Nordby, Tromsø
Norsk fysikklærerforening
Planning
Next school February 2018
8 applications (for 24 places)
received by today

8. Overview
So far, 109 teachers took part in national teacher programmes & 17 teachers participated in our international teacher programmes. This means, the total for is 126 Norwegian teachers.
Furthermore, next year’s programme is already half-booked, which looks really promising for the future!

9. … which results in many visits
Overall from Sep to Aug. 2017
~ 1 group per week
64 visits, 1364 visitors
48 unique groups, corresponding to 951 visitors
and later hopefully applications to the various CERN student programmes