The Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) from Greece organized a few weeks ago some Go-Lab implementation activities with several seminars and hands-on trainings about the project. Around 160 high school students and 30 teachers from more than 30 schools from the wider area of Athens and Crete came to the University of Athens and the University of Crete in order to learn about particle physics, about CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and to become researchers for a day.

In the morning, lectures were given by professors from both Universities on nuclear and particle physics. In the afternoon, the students attended a hands-on session, with introduction to the Go-Lab project and the relevant Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs). Furthermore, the students used the HYPATIA event display to look for Z and Higgs bosons. While the students were working on the computers, their teachers were introduced to the Greek physics ILSs of Go-Lab and experimented with few of them. At the end of the day, the students compared their results with those of other institutions from other countries (France, Italy, Poland, and Portugal) in a videoconference with CERN.

The learning outcomes of the masterclass activities were that the students were introduced to the world of high energy physics and the work being done at CERN. They got the chance to learn about the new discoveries of physics in that field. They also got a taste of what it is like to be an actual physicist searching for new particles in the laboratory exercise with HYPATIA.

The teachers got acquainted with the Go-Lab ILSs, in particular the ones in Greek language. They were guided on how to use them in their classes.