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The decision of which projects to support over the next 10 years must be made with a vision for how our field and our community will look 10 years from now and beyond. The future landscape must be attractive to young people from both a scientific perspective - interesting technical challenges, exciting technology, and the prospect of doing discovery science - and from a career perspective - access to long term academic and non-academic jobs. Furthermore, we must acknowledge the links between project decisions and our efforts on community engagement. The right project, together with the right outreach effort and framing, can capture the imaginations of the public and the eye of policymakers as has been seen recently with the James Webb Space Telescope among other projects. Many of the proposals in the Snowmass process, including several based in the U.S., leverage new technology to push the limits of what can be achieved to maximize our scientific capabilities. Such projects can be more effective at attracting the interest of young scientists and the public alike.
