Douglas County High Science Teacher Accelerates Learning at CERN

 

This summer, 46 teachers from 36 countries had the opportunity to tour CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics and one of the world’s leading scientific research laboratories, as part of the International High School Teacher Training program. Douglas County High School’s AP and IB Physics Teacher and Science Department Chair, Matt Leach, was one of those teachers. 

One of the topics teachers learned about included Nobel-winning particle physics. “We are learning about topics we can bring back to our students to inspire the next generation of physicists and engineers,” said Leach. 

CERN is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research. Physicists and engineers at CERN use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be found at CERN and is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.