Taking high energy physics to higher altitudes

Since 2013, physicists and science journalists from CERN and the U.S. have been carrying out education and outreach activities in Nepal. The activities include high energy physics seminars and hands-on data analysis sessions at universities; career sessions for college-bound and grad-school-bound students; outreach programs at middle and high schools; public programs in restaurants and other venues; and meetings with university administrators and government policy-makers. These activities have directly resulted in recruitment of summer students and high school teachers for training at CERN, international cooperation agreement between CERN and Nepal, establishment of a high-performance computing center at Kathmandu University, and a continuous stream of graduate students in physics, particularly in high energy physics, in the U.S. In this talk, I will highlight some of the past efforts, outcomes, and future plans.