The ASP has evolved to be much more than a school. It is a program of actions with directed ethos toward physics as an engine for development in Africa.

High School

High School

In parallel to the students’ activities, an outreach event is organized for high school learners for a period of one week. The objective is to motivate learners to develop and maintain interest in physics and applications. Upwards of 200 learners  per day from the host country can participate in this program, and the participating learners are identified by the local organizing committee (LOC) in consultation with the Regional Educational Authorities around the venue. During this outreach event, ASP lecturers visit a series of high schools in the host country. For each high school visited, about 40–50 pupils are pre-selected by the LOC for the program which lasts for about 4 hours and consists of physics demonstrations, experiments, exercises, talks, discussions, question and answer sessions. The learners workshop runs in parallel to the Students Program.

  • ASP2024 High School, The high school program was planned for April 15-19 (when pupils will be in school) . We accommodated more than 1000 learners at 5 different venues as follows:
    • Marrakech: Monday 15 april
    • Chichaooua: Tuesday 16 april
    • Al Haouz:  Wednesday 17 april
    • Kalaat Sraghna: Thursday 18 april
    • Rehamna: Friday 19 april
  • ASP2022 High School, This program was organized as an outreach event with hands-on activities in fundamental physics developed by QuarkNet and information on fundamental physics research based in Africa. The outreach activities, facilitated by the two QuarkNet staff members in the Teachers’ Program and a group of ASP2022 Lecturers, included particle cards, cosmic muon experiment, particle-collision activities and questions and answers session. The Q&A was especially motivating for students as they could ”ask anything” of physicists who were mostly young and mostly from Africa. The program was repeated for four hours daily for five days for different groups of pupils from schools in and around Gqeberha. A total of 231 pupils attended.
  • ASP2020 High School, Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the high school learners program associated to ASP2020 is cancelled.
  • ASP2018 High School, about 8 high schools in Windhoek participated to a one-week workshop on July 9–12, 2018: ASP2018-Learners-Workshop. For each high school visit, 40–80 learners will participate in the workshop of 4–8 hours, depending on the detailed arrangements.
  • ASP2016 High School, 3 high-schools in Kigali participated in the learners program over a period of 3 days, at the rate of one high school visit a day.