1. Ivan Melo (University of Žilina) in collaboration with A. Dirner, J. Hlavacova and G. Tarjanyiova 3rd International Particle Physics Masterclasses 2007 in Slovakia

2. Particle Physics Masterclasses: High school students become scientists for one day and put hands on the top research as members of the university research team Lectures Computer exercises EVO videoconference Started in Great Britain 10 years ago

3. Z-boson decays

4. MC 2007: 70 universities from Europe, USA and Africa 8 universities from Slovakia All videoconferences supported by the Slovak-Caltech EVO team Slovakia evaluates (with USA) questionnaires from students Ministry of Education

5. MC 2007 in Slovakia Žilina Prešov Košice Banská Bystrica Trenčín Trnava Nitra Bratislava 8 universities from all regions 244 students and 20 teachers from 50 high schools

6. 169 questionnaires handed in (out of 244 students)

7. Severity of Masterclasses

8. Easy to understand, the lecturers clearly knew what they were talking about Lecturers were friendly and had nice T-shirts ! Very good Lectures Interesting

9. We were better than Manchester ! Very good ! Interesting to see the students around the world Cool ! We could practice English Video-conference Why didn’t they speak Slovak ? ☺

10. How much they learned and what impact it had on them I learned many new things Computer exercise was at times boring Super !

11. Did they like it ? Excellent and lot of fun. It’s a pity time went so fast Nice people, good lunch, a lot of boys ☺ We had too little muons !

12. Correlations

13. Severity of Masterclasses (comparison) Slovakia (169)gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824)

14. Slovakia (169)gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824) Video-conference (comparison)

15. Slovakia (169)gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824) Did they like it ? (comparison)

16. gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824) What did they like most ?

17. MC 2007 in Slovakia T – shirts for best students (4 pairs/university) MC seminars (Higgs boson and Quark-Gluon plasma) Projects (alpha_s, W branching ratios) Central Slovak MC pages: http://fyzika.uniza.sk/mc Astronomy Masterclasses