Team Members enjoy lunch at the Welcoming Reception in their honor

James H. Stith, Vice President, Physics Resources at AIP talks with a group of students

Judy Franz, Executive Officer of the American Physical Society talks with some of the team members

Lab Coach -Warren Turner, Sr Coach - Leaf Turner, and Academic Director - Mary Mogge

James H. Stith, Vice President, Physics Resources at AIP, Maria Elena Khoury, Dir. of Programs and Conferences at AAPT and Dr. Bernard Khoury, Executive Officer at AAPT

Fred Wellstood, Richard Berg, and Nick Chant, University of Maryland Physics Department

Luncheon

Students in the Lab

Students taking Exams

Coaches on top - Team members in the "M"

Team members and the coaches in their 2002 U. S. Physics Team T-shirts.

Dr. David Ling, IBM - talks with team member Benjamin Schwartz

Lab demonstration

Students relax with a friendly game of cards

Students arrive at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

Inside the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

Astronaut Dr. John Grunsfeld- Guest speaker at the Ceremony "Tribute to the U.S. Physics Olympiad Team 2002."

Team Members, Coaches, Dr. John Grunsfeld and Dr. Khoury

Anne Kinney, NASA- Director, Astronomy and Physics Division Speaker at the Ceremony

Astronaut Dr. John Grunsfeld with Dr. Bernard Khoury, Executive Officer at AAPT, and Dr. James H. Stith, Vice President, Physics Resources at AIP.

Dr. Mary Mogge, Academic Director for the Team

The top five students - Steven Byrnes, Sean Markan, Benjamin Schwartz, David Simmons-Duffin, Pavel Batrachenko.