Christian University:
The conference allowed all of us to look outside of our
own personal experience as physicists — be it as students, researchers, or teachers — and view things from a more national and global perspective. It brought about reflection on what it means to live not just as a scientist, but as a citizen scientist, and imbued a sense of greater responsibility to the community that invests in us.

North Carolina State University-Raleigh:
The first evening provided a quaint coffee and dessert social where we became fast friends with several interesting individuals.... Students and faculty from schools across the country poured into the hotel throughout the evening and into the next morning, eventually totaling more than 600. Representatives from education and industry were present from as far away as New Zealand and Australia.

Juniata College:
What we found most compelling about the conference was the chance to see and interact with the scientific community.... The chance to listen to some of the giants of physics and scientific citizenship and to meet fellow physics students was spectacular. Brad Dinardo, one of our students, said, “I loved the anecdote told about Galileo by Leon Letterman, and his comparison between the telescope and the LHC [Large Hadron Collider]–how a discovery by the LHC could have an impact on the state of the world that we cannot imagine.

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• Summer 2004