photo of Neema Mgana by Alize Van Reeth

Every year, Pop!Tech identifies a talented group of highschool and college students who receive full scholarships to attend the conference. This year, we partnered with the National Geographic Society to do something very special with this program: after a nationally competitive search, we selected a group of talented young people (David Hopkins, Jonny Stepakoff, Alize Van Reeth, Abigail Chance, Nikki Finlay, Ali Driesman, Katie Hynd and Carly Wright) who apprenticed to a professional photographer and then photographed the entire conference, including making special portraits of some of the speakers.

The results were astonishing, as you can now see for yourself in this fantastic online slideshow. Congratulations to the students, and thanks for making such a wonderful document of the conference.