The ATLAS LEGO model has found the Higgs, or in fact recent Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs has found the ATLAS LEGO model. As part of his visit to the University of Manchester, were he received an honorary doctorate degree yesterday evening, Peter Higgs signed the original ATLAS LEGO model, which was brought to Manchester and rebuild by local students the days before.

It is a great honour, certainly a long-lasting memory of this moment and a kind support for our outreach project.

Thank you Peter Higgs and congratulations for both the honorary doctorate degree and of course the Nobel Prize

All images © Craig Strong

It’s time to give out some prizes and announce the winners of our CERN Open Days BYOPD competition. We had an international jury of ATLAS physicist look at all the models and pick their favourites. In addition we have one audience award winner and some prizes for people that took part in the “me and the model” – competition on Facebook.

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By now most of you have heard that François Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. What you probably do not know is that one of them, Peter Higgs, is going to sign one of the large ATLAS LEGO models in Manchester next week.

During the CERN Open Days last weekend we had over 300 participants in our Build Your Own Particle Detector competition and thousands of people passing through our tent. It was quite amazing.

We will announce the winners and post some pictures hopefully within a week or so.

In the mean time you still have the chance to upload a picture of yourself in front of the ATLAS model on our Facebook page to take part in our t-shirt raffle.

One day gone, one to come!

Saturday was amazing! We had hundreds of people passing by looking at the ATLAS LEGO models, watching the videos and discussing with the physicists around. We had over 140 participants in the Build Your Own Particle Detector competition, with ages ranging from four to almost 60 years.

We hope to many many more today and will try to announce the winners as soon as possible via email an on this page (but expect it to take about a week or so).

Also remember to put a picture of you and the ATLAS model on our Facebook page (and maybe even like it) to support us and to have the chance to win e.g. some ATLAS t-shirts.

We’re looking forward to yet another exciting day!