  School visits to research laboratories or facilities represent a unique way
to bring students closer to science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics) careers. However, such visits can be very expensive for
students and teachers, in terms of both time and money. In this paper, we
present a possible alternative to on-site visits consisting inan activity
addressed to high school students that makes use of a VR application to make
them enter into a particle physics experiment. This proposal can represent a
valid way of guaranteeing a visit to a research centre for all schools,
regardless of their social or geographical origin. We describe the tests we
carried out with a focus group of teachers and their students, and the obtained
results.
