Padraic Barry , a 5th year Ramsgrange Community School student was extremely fortunate to have been selected along with 35 other people from all across the globe out of a total 10,000 applicants to visit CERN in Geneva, Switzerland last week. He was the only applicant selected from Ireland.
CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research and is the home of the Large Hadron Collider the largest ongoing experiment in the the world where they simulate the conditions of the "Big Bang". While there Padraic has been lucky enough to visit the Antimatter Factory, the Syncocyclotron and even got to go 100m under the French countryside to visit the Atlas Detector.
What an amazing experience for Padraic!