PhysCon 2012 by the Numbers

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Spring

2013

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Connecting Worlds: The 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress

PhysCon 2012 by the Numbers

People
830 attendees
580 students
189 poster presenters
60 exhibitors
48 poster judges
42 additional Florida scientists at
“Breakfast with the Scientists”
9 workshop leaders
8 speakers
15 workshop wizards

NASA Tours
776 attendees
776 lunches
39 student reporters
16 tour buses
16 bus captains
16 NASA tour guides
6 lab tours for SPS Reporters
3 tour stops

Awards
19 chapter reporter awards
11 outstanding poster awards
8 Sigma Pi Sigma Outstanding Service Awards
6 Honorary Members Inducted
5 art awards
4 new at-large members of Sigma Pi Sigma
1 Worth Seagondollar Award

Logistics
3,314 meals served
1,800 cookies and brownies
550+ pounds of snacks
184 gallons of drinks (not including at meals)
160 schools represented
39 foamboard meeting signs
20 pieces of art displayed
1 mobile app

Support & Volunteers
628 donors
42 SPS Council Members
11 planning committee members
10 sponsors (see page 37)
7 SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma staff members
3 AIP Development staff
1 generous subsidy from the
American Institute of Physics

PhysCon 2016
3 reconnaissance missions to San Jose, CA
1 confirmation from our tours host, the
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

 

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