It's Friday morning in March, a school day. The room is filled with teachers and students, There are students near the door asking teachers to sign a roster and take a name tag. Some students are manning a remote TV station, others are videotaping the discussions.
Waiters move among tables, pouring coffee and distributing bowls of fruit.
Students at Truckee High School handled all the planning, organizing, logistics, and workshop development. They also ran the conference, documented the learning in progress, and even helped conduct some of the workshops. The conference planning began the previous spring. Juniors who expected to enroll in the first-block economics class were asked to form teams to handle all aspects of the conference. Each team was assigned projects.