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Jorge Villa-Vélez

@jurgenvilla.bsky.social
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Colombian Astronomer 🇨🇴 School and Student Programmes Manager at #CERN. BL4S manger cern.ch/bl4s Before: Postdoc at #LPENS Paris 🇫🇷. #MOONS collaboration and #RECAstronomia He/him/his 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Would you like to perform your own experiment? Here’s what you need to know: Register: cern.ch/bl4s Proposal submission deadline: 13 March Additional prizes for up to 70 teams Beamline for Schools is supported through the CERN & Society Foundation.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Students from all around the world propose an experiment to be conducted at a beamline, and the teams with the best proposals will win a trip to CERN, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, or Electron Stretcher Facility ELSA to conduct their experiments.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Only one more month to apply 📣 Beamline for Schools (#BL4S) is a physics competition for high-school students worldwide. Hear from last year’s winning teams about their experience.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Last week we asked you to guess what this was… 🔎 Here we see the Experimental Linac for Surface Analysis (ELISA), a compact proton accelerator built for exhibition in #CERNScienceGateway – the only one that is ready for demonstrations to the public.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Beamline for Schools is supported by donors and partners through the CERN & Society Foundation. The Foundation connects CERN’s science, creativity, and innovation with society.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Teams can participate in preparatory online events and virtual visits before submitting their proposal. Submit your experiment proposals by 13 March 2026. Learn more and apply: cern.ch/bl4s
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Kickstart your future in science 🚀 Have you ever wondered what it’s like to conduct your own experiment at CERN? High-school students from all over the world can now apply for the Beamline for Schools (#BL4S) competition.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📅Submit your experiment proposals from January 2026 until 13 March, 2026. Apply now: cern.ch/bl4s Beamline for Schools is supported through the CERN & Society Foundation.
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Home | A Beamline for Schools
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If you are a high-school student with an idea for a #physics experiment to conduct at a particle accelerator, submit your proposal to win the chance to spend two weeks at CERN, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY or Electron Stretcher Facility ELSA to perform your experiment.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📣 Pre-registration for Beamline for Schools (#BL4S) is open. Beamline for Schools (#BL4S) is a #physics competition open to high-school students from all over the world.
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Are you a high school teacher or university professor eager to guide a team of 5–9 students in designing an experiment at #CERN, #DESY, or #ELSA? Pre-register for the Beamline for Schools Competition and discover how to take part. Proposal submissions will open in January 2026. cern.ch/bl4s
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Yesterday, someone walked into my office and asked me where I was from. When I told him I was from Colombia, he immediately said, “Ohhh, that’s why you’re so kind!” Such a simple comment, but it absolutely made my day. 😄
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you are looking for resources, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social produced an extremely comprehensive document with a long list of articles, papers, books, and more: prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...
The LGBTQ STEM Day logo and underneath the following text: The experiences of LGBTQIA+ People Studying or Working in STEM
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Wishing you all a happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM #LGBTQSTEMDAY #LGBTSTEMDAY 🏳️‍🌈⚛️🔭 Visibility is very important for our colleagues who cannot be out :D ... Very happy to join the @cern.bsky.social celebration this afternoon. prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It was a real pleasure to meet Maxime and the winning teams at CERN (@cern.bsky.social). Their enthusiasm for physics and research was truly inspiring! 👏 🚀 ⚛️ ... Thank you #CERNandSociety Foundation for making this possible ♥️ #CERN #DESY #ELSA #UniversityofBonn #Education #Science #Outreach #STEM
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
BL4S is an education and outreach project supported by the CERN & Society Foundation, where teams of high-school students propose an experiment to be performed on a beamline. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ce...
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2025 Beamline for Schools winners at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn
From 10 to 24 September, CERN, DESY (the German electron synchrotron facility) and University of Bonn welcomed the winners of the 2025 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition. Beamline for Schools is ...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 06/10/2025
Michel Mayor et Didier Queloz : « L’astrophysique vit un âge d’or »
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Michel Mayor et Didier Queloz : « L’astrophysique vit un âge d’or »
Trente ans après leur découverte de la première exoplanète, les deux astronomes, récompensés du prix Nobel de physique en 2019, reviennent sur la façon dont leur annonce a changé l’astronomie moderne.
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So proud to be involved in this programme :D #CERN #DESY #ELSA #UniversityofBonn #CERNandSociety #STEM #Outreach #Education
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Meet some of the Winners of the BL4S 2025 competition! 😍⚛️💪 (cern.ch/bl4s)
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#PassThePhone challenge with our #BL4S students 📞 Last week, CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn welcomed the winners of the 2025 Beamline for Schools competition. Hear from Defne, Alex and Leo about what they are working on during their time in the labs.
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The winning teams of #BL4S2025 are arriving at CERN, DESY and ELSA tomorrow :D ... Very happy to meet the Belgian and Turkish teams ⚛️😊 home.cern/news/press-r... #Beamline #CERN #DESY #ELSA #Outreach #Education #STEM #Science #BL4S
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
#LunarEclipse from Geneva 😍♥️ #Geneva #Switzerland #Eclipse #ChemindesCrêts
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Dawson Technicolor is one of the five winning teams of the #BeamlineForSchools ( #BL4S ) competition heading to #DESY this year! 🚀 Next week: 🇧🇪 Belgium & 🇹🇷 Türkiye → #CERN 🇨🇦 Canada & 🇲🇽 Mexico → #DESY 🇺🇸 USA → #ELSA in Bonn Exciting times ahead! 😄 www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/news/quebec-... #Science
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Quebec first: Dawson students bound for Hamburg after winning global science competition | Newsroom
Nine Dawson College students are heading to Hamburg this September after winning a major international science competition. The “Dawson Technicolor” team
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New home, new neighborhood, new country, new views ♥️😍 #Genève #Switzerland #Bouchet 🇨🇭🫕🧀🏔️⛰️🏞️
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
À la nouvelle vie ! Annemasse, France ➡️ Genève, Suisse 😊
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Home ♥️ #HauteSavoie #France #Alps #LesBrasses #LaYaute
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Last week, I had the pleasure of receiving the @epshep2025.bsky.social Outreach Prize on behalf of #BeamlineForSchools. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed from 2014 until today: support scientists, project leaders, core team, and countless volunteers 🥳🏆 #EPSHEP #CERN #DESY #ELSA #Bonn #BL4S
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Super happy with this year's winners!!! Looking forward to meeting them in September 🥳🎉😍 #BL4S #Beamlineforschools #CERN #DESY #ELSA #Bonn
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Yesterday, the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) core team and the @cern.bsky.social and Society head of fundraising had the pleasure to sign the 15 telescopes provided by #StarsShineForEveryone #SSVI that will be awarded to the BL4S Outreach Prize winners this year 😍🔭🌌 #Outreach #Education #CERN
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Little friends I felt myself at #CERN with the crafting society team ♥️🦊🐻🐧🐸🥑 #CERN #TSP #Felting
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📣 This autumn, the #CERNAcceleratorSchool, in collaboration with ALBA Synchrotron returns with its 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 – General Accelerator Physics: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀. All you need to know: 📍Santa Susanna, Spain 📅 21 Sept – 4 Oct 2025 📎 Apply before 15 August: cas.web.cern.ch
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So cool! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
When I joined @cern.bsky.social 3 months ago, I didn’t expect it would take me back to the city where I got my PhD. On July 7, I’ll attend the conference to collect the Outreach Prize awarded to Beamline for Schools #BL4S! Looking forward to this ⚛️🔭🥳❤️ www.eps-hep2025.eu
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EPS HEP 2025
The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) is one of the major international conferences that reviews the field every second year since 1971 and is organized by the High...
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Happy to attend the 13th edition of the Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop #BTTB13 this year on behalf of the Beamline for Schools competition #BL4S (cern.ch/bl4s) :D ... The workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain. Looking forward to showing 2024 BL4S results :)
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I've recently been working on the statistics for the 508 proposals we received this year for the Beamline for Schools competition (cern.ch/bl4s), and it's so rewarding to see the world map filled with dots from countries all over the globe! 🌍✨ #BL4S @cern.bsky.social #DESY
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Life by the lake! #Geneva #Genève #Switzerland #Suisse #LacLéman
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
How can we make advanced physics accessible and engaging for students? Panagiota Chatzidaki's (PhD at @cern.bsky.social) paper explores the impact of a digital learning module, real-world context, and interactive design! 🔬📱 #PhysicsEducation #ScienceOutreach #STEM 🔗 journals.aps.org/prper/abstra...
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What makes digital learning effective? Evaluation of a digital learning module about positron emission tomography
The article provides evidence-based recommendations in the form of a set of effective design principles that can be used as tools for evaluating and designing digital learning modules.
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards The CERN-led educational programme Beamline for Schools is among the recipients of the 2025 awards of the European Physical Society’s High Energy and Particle Physics Division Find out more: home.cern/news/news/kn...
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Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards
The 2025 awards of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS-HEPP) were announced this week and have this year recognised the success of Beamline for Schools ...
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Yessss! Beamline for Schools won the #EPSHEP Outreach Prize :D I'm so happy to see that this project I joined as a project manager has been awarded such an amazing prize. Thanks to @epshep2025.bsky.social for this and to @cern.bsky.social for the many years of commitment! #CERN #DESY #CERNandSociety
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European #OpenScience Cloud Federation. Find out more: www.home.cern/news/news/co...
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Chasse aux œufs ! 🥚🐰🌿 #ViuzEnSallaz #HauteSavoie #France
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
La vie dans les Alpes ♥️😊
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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The K-12 Astronomy Education Conference in Asia 2025 will take place 1-4 September 2025 at Princess Sirindhorn AstroParc in Chiang Mai, Thailand. More information, registration and abstract submission at indico.narit.or.th/event/221/
Poster of the K-12 Astronomy Education Conference in Asia 2025
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Discover @cern.bsky.social and its nature online! Quite a nice journey through the facilities, experiments, and the plants and animals surrounding this huge lab! maps.cern.ch/geoportal/ap...
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Superconductivity workshop at #INSPYRE2025. It was super cool to show high school students different experiments that guided them through the complex world of superconductivity. Thanks to INPYRE organisers for the invitation 😊 #LNF #INFN #Frascati #Italy
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm at the #INSPYRE2025 school in #Frascati this week. A Here, at the #LNF #INFN, I will be performing electrostatic, Infrared and superconductivity activities for highschool students similar to the ones we have at @cern in the Science Gateway workshops 😊⚛️🚀 #Outreach #Education #STEM #Science
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm feeling incredibly proud of my professional journey as I prepare a presentation for the #INSPYRE2025 International School on Modern Physics and Research, taking place next week at #Frascati National Laboratory. As I always say: From the #Andes to the #Alps! 🚀 #Physics #Astronomy #STEM #Outreach
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Petite balade aux Voirons 😍♥️🌿 #France #HauteSavoie #LesVoirons #French #Alps #MontBlanc
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Jorge Villa-Vélez @jurgenvilla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Spring at @cern.bsky.social ♥️ #CERN #Spring
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