LVI Geneva Trip

Fourteen Lower Sixth students went on the recent two-day trip to Geneva. They were toured around the United Nations, where the students learnt more about the history and current work of the UN. Next they visited the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, where students heard powerful recorded witness testimonies from those around the world who have benefitted from the work of the organisation. That evening, students also caught some of a night time drone light display, which was running as part of Geneva's "Feu Ô Lac" festival.

On the second day, there was a tour of CERN, which included a lecture from one of the physicists currently working at the ATLAS detector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Pupils then had the opportunity to visit the LHCb detector to learn how particle accelerators work, and about the research that scientists there are currently conducting on matter and antimatter. Afterwards they visited the CERN Globe "Universe of Particles" exhibition.

We rounded off the trip with a scenic walk along Lake Geneva to the History of Science museum, which houses a collection of rare and ancient scientific instruments from the 17th to the 19th century.