Tauranga science students will head to Europe next month to join in physics education research and get hands-on with two particle experiments.
Twelve students from Mount Maunganui and Otumoetai colleges will be among the first Kiwi participants in the hands-on physics teaching facility S'Cool Lab Plus at the European organisation for nuclear research known as CERN.
The students, accompanied by two teachers, will leave for Europe on April 6 for a little more than two weeks.
Otumoetai College physics teacher Rebecca Harrop said the students will tour places including Paris, Munich, Geneva and Stuttgart, visiting museums and meet with scientists, as well as participate in educational research and hands-on experiments at CERN.
"We are the first group in New Zealand to be able to have this opportunity," she said.