06/06/2026
Global Competition Winners!
Our team has made us so proud. 712 entries from 89 countries across the world, 5 winners get to complete their proposed experiment at one of the world’s largest collaborative experimental laboratories.
Our team, the Mobile MIPs, were one of the winners and now have a two week all expenses paid visit to DESY in Hamburg to complete their experiment!
“Our team plans to test if the CMOS sensors in mobile phones can be used as a low-cost beam telescope using the electron beam at DESY,” explain our team. “The CMOS sensors have a projected comparable resolution to current particle detectors and will later be used to study cosmic rays. We are delighted and honoured to be invited to DESY.”
Their success has been shared across the scientific communities webpages, and you can also read their proposal here;
https://beamlineforschools.cern/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/532_Mobile_MIPs.pdf
Links to other reports on the competition;
CERN: https://home.cern/students-from-bangladesh-india-turkiye-the-uk-and-the-usa-win-the-13th-edition-of-beamline-for-schools/
DESY: https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=4321&two_columns=1
ELSA (University of Bonn): https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/100-2026?set_language=en
Many thanks to Professor Sergey Burdin from the University of Liverpool and our own Head of Physics Dr Aurora Gutierrez-Sosa for supporting the team.
Absolutely amazing achievement, well done to Daniel, Ross, Sam, Amina, Amy, Henry, Isaac, Uan and Youssef. Absolutely tremendous work, and what an experience you have coming next!
