More than 170 alumni from the Benjamin Franklin Trans-Atlantic Fellows Program traveled to Bulgaria for a four day reunion conference at the American University in Blagoevgrad. Students came from many different countries and most had previously participated in the BFTF program at Wake Forest University in either the summer of 2007 or 2008. This year more than 10 new Bulgarian students were invited to attend the program which ran from July 22 to July 25. A grant from the U.S. Department of State helped to fund the program and Public Affairs Officer Ken Moskowitz from U.S. Embassy Sofia opened the conference with some words of wisdom for the students.