Towards a Gravitational Waves Masterclass for high school students

To make students share in the thrill of discovery in an authentic setting and make for an effective educational tool, members of the Virgo Educational Outreach Group have developed an app that lets high school students do analysis of Gravitational Wave data taken from the LVK-network by a guided series of steps. The app divides students into different groups, each of which gets assigned a gravitational wave signal as measured by one of three detectors (LIGO Hanford LIGOLivingston, Virgo), and lets each group clean their data, go through the process o fmatched filtering to find the best fitting gravitational wave template, collaborate online to localize the GW source in the sky emulating the work of the LVK collaboration and compare their findings with the other groups. The app will act as a basis for the development of a Gravitational Waves Masterclass which will be deployed in schools in 2025-2026 school year.