CERN launches new youth site

Today Web veteran Robert Cailliau launched CERNland a new website for young people, on the occasion of the Web’s 20th anniversary. The website aims to bring the excitement of CERN’s research to a young audience aged 7 to 12 through a range of films, games and multimedia applications.

Having been developed with the help of professional educators, and assisted by some of the young people it’s been designed to reach, the site combines arcade-style video games with fun physic quizzes, films and even music downloads.

Owing to an increasing demand for a physics-literate graduate population, coupled with falling enrolment in physics courses at the university level, young people are an increasingly important audience for CERN.