Area students excel in many areas, whether it’s the Albemarle High School drama team, the Charlottesville High School orchestra, or the students from all the schools whose drawings, paintings and sculptures appear in an annual show at Fashion Square.
This time we’d like to focus on BACON, CERN and CHS.
That’s the Best All Around Club of Nerds, a group at Charlottesville High planning to visit the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, where highly sophisticated research takes place in particle physics.
How many high-schoolers get to do that?
Thirty-two students are raising money for the trip, during which they also will visit Paris and Besançon, France, a Charlottesville sister city. This is the third year CHS has sent representatives to CERN.
In this space, we have previously argued for more attention in the United States to STEM education — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — as critical if America is going to stay competitive in the global economy.
Trips such as this are an opportunity to help create a new generation of scientists, whose work might generate the next breakthrough in cancer research or even uncover the “theory of everything.”
BACON has earned our congratulations, respect and support.
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