The Audacity of whY

Teen YMarch 16, 2013 “ Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.” The - Steve Jobs Audacity of whY Teen Welcome 03

Human evolution, invention, medicine, technology and relationships would have stood still without disruptors posing that simple, powerful question ‘why?’. There is no one more curious, no greater disruptor, than a teen on a mission. They prod, poke and dissect their worlds around them until they are confronted with Where Is TEDxTeen Taking Place? answers - or mysteries - that capture their imaginations. Nothing else will do. It could be said that Generation Y is more like Generation ‘whY?’ as they turn over established regimes, age-old thinking, and timeless truths, through social media, the power of crowds and an unswerving belief that they have the right to know ‘why?’ Meet the trail-blazers leading a global ‘whY’ revolution and be prepared to have your perceptions turned upside down.

In the heart of SoHo NYC at the Scholastic Auditorium. The Scholastic Auditorium provides a stimulating, one-of-a-kind environment for both children and adults that caters to a broad range of programming needs. The 4,000 square foot space was designed for multimedia events, including live productions and performances, live global webcasts, press conferences, product launches, screenings, and so much more. Conference Guide 05

Teen CONFERENCE GUIDE Top to Bottom: Scenes from previous TEDx events; TEDxWaterloo, TEDxEdmonton and TEDxAtlanta 1. LEND US YOUR BRAIN 4. BREAKS ARE IMPORTANT 6. TEDxTEEN TECH PROTOCOL You are about to be hit by a blizzard Your TEDxTeen experience is not limited The Scholastic Auditorium is WiFi enabled, of incoming ideas. Your mind will be to the auditorium. The TED brand is and you will receive the network password zapped, pinged, prodded, and teased. about “Ideas Worth Spreading.” To get at the conference. You are welcome to But to benefit from TED’s brand of brain the most out of the conference, soak use your laptop during breaks in the open therapy, you need to shut down the up the information during the talks and areas and we encourage you to tweet and competition. Forget about work and then use the breaks to discuss the share the information from the conference. school for a few hours. Forget about your information with fellow attendees, and let However, we ask that attendees refrain email. Silence your phone. Experience the conversation continue to push you from laptop use during the sessions. You what is happening on stage, on screen to explore the ideas. Engage in our need to focus, and keyboards are and around you. TEDxTeen Village and be sure to thank distracting. If you want to use your laptop our partners for making TEDxTeen during sessions please take a seat in the 2. SEE EVERY TALK possible! Eat your food fast, use the simulcast areas. Use this program to write The best moments seem to happen bathroom quickly and keep your brain notes. Turn your cell phones, BlackBerries when you least expect them. TEDxTeen stimulated between sessions. and iPhones to silent. Do not check them is not about what you already know. during sessions. If you must do so, please It is about how what you know connects 5. THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES wait until the breaks. Video is prohibited to everything else. So be a part of it all. TEDxTeen is a one day conference. But during the sessions though feel free to Bump into things you may not know. If today is not a finale – it is the beginning. The record conversations during the breaks. you pick only the talks you think you will talks you saw today will live online following Photography is permitted during the like, you’ve missed the experience. the conference at TEDxTeen.com and we sessions and breaks, but please no flash encourage you to blog them, tweet them, photography, and keep the clicking noises 3. TALK TO THE SPEAKERS share them, chat them and push them out during sessions to a minimum. Following The conference time is limited, so we don’t around the globe. TEDxTeen is not just the conference we hope you will share your have time for long speaker introductions. a conference, it is a community. Being photos with our online community. We have included each speaker’s bio here today you have first hand access and in this program, relevant links to their work knowledge to amazing information and 7. RESTROOMS and additional information so you can take stories coming in from around the globe There are restrooms located in the lobby it all in after the conference. Attendees at about teens who are doing extraordinary outside the auditorium as well as on the TEDxTeen have the advantage – you can things, who have extraordinary ideas, who 2nd floor, outside the Resource Center. strike up a live conversation with them need your help to keep their conversations during the breaks. And we encourage you alive and who look to you for your ideas and to do so! As you listen to their talks, write contributions. Join in the community, con- down questions, comments and ideas you tribute to the conversation and come together want to talk about or ask them. to tell the story of TEDxTeen to the world. Schedule 07 TEDxTeen Village Things to do during the breaks! SKY LOBBY THINK Global School BLOGGERS ALLEY Have you ever wanted to meet a student Located at the top of the escalator from a different country? Today is your Located off of the Sky Lobby chance to meet not one, but nine kids just behind the escalator Abercrombie & Fitch® like you from all around the world. THINK A&F breakout sessions challenge Global School challenges you to find Simulcast Area teens to learn how to be more open, our students today and have a first hand Blog and tweet from your computer here! collaborative and valuing of diverse experience with a true world traveler. Once This is also where food will be served perspectives by understanding you’ve had the opportunity to talk to one of during the breaks. dimensions that are important to our students, come on over to our display others. Participants will experience how and check out where our traveling high This is Teen Breakfast collaborative and connected we really school will be studying next! Location: Bloggers Alley are to one another, by seeing the world 9:30am—10:45am: This is Teen welcomes through the A&F Inclusion Wheel, and We-Care.com you to Scholastic with a special author realizing that we have more things in Visit the We-Care.com area and talk to breakfast! Meet Andrew Jenks, Eliot common than we imagined. their amazing people about the way they’re Schrefer, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and revolutionizing the connection between Elizabeth Eulberg and get your free Hobsons nonprofits and the people like you who books signed–and enjoy breakfast treats Hobsons helps educators, administrators, support them. You can even sign up with courtesy of This is Teen. students and families maximize We-Care, choose a cause to support success through every stage of the (We Are Family Foundation would be a AUDITORIUM LOBBY learning lifecycle. Come and play great choice!), and maybe even make a purchase from your favorite online retailer! a college search game with us! Download Located outside the auditorium CollegeConfidential’s mobile app, search Whole Foods Market® for your favorite school and pin it on our Happiness Factory Stop by the Whole Foods Market® map for a chance to win some cool prizes! Happiness starts with you! Come take interactive photo booth to learn more about your photo against our wall of happiness our commitment to local farmers and TEDxTeen and spread happiness by sharing your entrepreneurs and strike a pose with your TEDxTeen is about sharing ideas - smile with friends. Based on “The Book friends. Enjoy a complimentary photo to focusing the conversation on teens and of Happiness: Africa”, by Joseph Peter. save as a personalized souvenir! their power to change the world. Now you It’s a Happiness Factory! can physically take TEDxTeen home with you and help fund next year’s TEDxTeen Simulcast Area conference! In the spirit of the “D” in TED for “design,” we have created “The Live Stream Audacity of whY” t-shirts and jump drives Live stream of speaker interviews with available to you today only. Stroll over Andrew Jenks to the TEDxTeen table and check out the swag! Schedule Schedule 09 Of Events Session1 Session 2 Session3

9:30am (Lobby) 11:00am—12:30pm 1:30pm—2:45pm 3:45pm—5:00pm TEDxTeen guests arrive (Auditorium and TEDxTeen.com) (Auditorium and TEDxTeen.com) (Auditorium and TEDxTeen.com)

9:30am—11:00am Chris Anderson: Kuha’o Case Tallia Storm (Sky Lobby, Bloggers Alley, Auditorium What Is TED/TEDx? Performs an audience Performance Lobby) selected medley The Conversation begins Chelsea Clinton Kristopher Bronner Meet, talk, think, share, eat, explore and In the Arena Maria Toorpakai Wazir How to Change the World prepare! Squashing Extremism Caine Monroy Amaryllis Fox This is Teen author book signing and Outside the Box Ndaba Mandela Following Instinct breakfast (Bloggers Alley) Why Africa Rising Joseph Peter Sophie Umazi 10:40am—11:00am (TEDxTeen.com) Give Happiness A message from Kid President Picture this Peace Online audience arrivals with host Andrew Jenks Kuha’o Case Tallia Storm Dylan Vecchione Seeing No Limits Discovering the Storm Passionate QUESTioning

Kelvin Doe 2:45pm—3:45pm In closing with Persistent Experimentation (Sky Lobby, Bloggers Alley, Chelsea Clinton Auditorium Lobby) Tania Luna 5:00pm—5:45pm Taken by Surprise BREAK: Meet, talk, think, share, (Sky Lobby, Bloggers Alley, eat, explore and engage Auditorium Lobby) 12:30pm—1:30pm (Sky Lobby, Bloggers Alley, Exclusive speaker and partner Before You Depart: Meet, talk, Auditorium Lobby) interviews hosted by Andrew Jenks think, share, explore and engage on TEDxTeen.com BREAK: Meet, talk, think, share, Exclusive speaker and partner eat, explore and engage interviews hosted by Andrew Jenks on TEDxTeen.com The conversation continues online at Exclusive speaker and partner TEDxTeen.com, @tedxteen, interviews hosted by Andrew Jenks Facebook.com/tedxteen, #TEDxTeen on TEDxTeen.com The Audacity of whY 11

ChelseaClinton Host AndrewJenks

Chelsea Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas Online Host in 1980, and has lived in Washington, Palo Alto, Oxford, New York and London. She holds a B.A. Andrew Jenks is an award-winning filmmaker, from Stanford, a MPhil from Oxford and a MPH from star of MTV’s critically-acclaimed series World of Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Jenks, and a lead correspondent for MTV’s 2012 Election campaign, “Power of 12.” Jenks began Chelsea is a special correspondent for NBC News his filmmaking career at the age of 19 when he and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Oxford. moved into an assisted-living facility in order to Chelsea also works at New York University, the capture the true essence of this often overlooked Clinton Foundation and with the Clinton Global community in HBO’s, Room 335. Three years later Find more about me here: Initiative. She previously worked at McKinsey at age 21, Jenks further pushed the boundaries Find more about me here: @ChelseaClinton & Company and Avenue Capital. of his work as he spent seven months in Japan andrewjenksroom335.com facebook.com/ChelseaClinton filming the ESPN documentary, The Zen of Bobby V, @AndrewJenks Chelsea serves on the boards of the Clinton which profiled American baseball manager Bobby facebook.com/AndrewJenksOfficial Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Valentine as he managed the Chiba Lotte Marines. Health Access Initiative, the School of American For his captivating portrayals of reality, The New Ballet, Common Sense Media and the Weill Cornell York Times has said “Jenks takes his camera into Medical College. a world that is usually invisible and shines a light on a population that many of us would just as soon She and her husband, Marc, live in New York City. forget.” Currently, Jenks is set to release a collection of stories by Scholastic Books about his filmmaking experience, and his MTV docu-series World of Jenks, which showcases the lives of inspirational young people who face difficult odds, is about to go into its second season. Session 1 “ Stay hungry, The Audacity of whY 13

stay foolish”. - Steve Jobs

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TaniaLuna 15 The Audacity whY of Find more about me here: Find more josephpeter.com Peter and recognize Happiness as a universal goal. universal a as Happiness recognize and which covered 50 African nations over 75 days. He captured a selection of some of the most uplifting and inspiring imagery of the African people. The iconic portraits depict African people of all ages, races, religions and nationalities, uniting them through the medium of happiness. “The Book of Happiness: Africa” was given to 2500 global leaders, dignitaries and stakeholders at the 2010 World Cup Final in South Africa by Coca-Cola. A special handmade edition was also presented to Nelson Mandela (The Official Book #1) and his grandsons, Mandela. Kweku and Ndaba theIn 2011, book inspired a campaign led by Dr. Hamid Al-Bayati, Ambassador of Iraq to the United Nations; Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the 66th President of the General Assembly; H.E. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, and Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, to create an International Day of Happiness. It was adopted on June 28th, 2012 by consensus of all 193 member nations, declaring March 20th of every year the official global day to celebrate Joseph Joseph is one of the most traveled young artists in the world. In 2009, Joseph created a photographic study of Coca-Cola happiness by Tour duringTrophy Cup™ World FIFA the

Good Morning America Morning Good to to Monroy Wired and various websites and television programs, from Forbes and NPR. Caine’s adventure took him to France as the youngest speaker ever to address the Cannes Lion Conference and to the USC Business. of School Marshall Caine’s story proves that a child’s imagination is limitless and cannot be bound. With persistence and creativity, Caine managed to change not only his local community but communities globe. the around passes and even prizes. At first, traffic was slow. But then, filmmaker Nirvan Mullick came to his father’s used auto parts store. Mullick saw something special in Caine’s Arcade and wanted to tell his story. And the rest, as they history. is say, Mullick’s film has received over 7 million views, along with 120,000 Facebook fans. Caine has inspired more than 100 schools in 9 different countries to create their own cardboard arcades. Caine’s Arcade has been seen on Caine A used auto parts store in Los Angeles doesn’t seem to be a likely place for a boy on summer vacation. It also doesn’t seem like the ideal place to build a cardboard arcade, but one boy did. Caine Monroy was 9 years old when he created “Caine’s Arcade.” With a good amount of cardboard and a soaring imagination, Caine changed the way we look at creativity. Despite the location, Caine formed his arcade by designing games, creating customer cainesarcade.com Find more about me here: Find more facebook.com/CaineOfCainesArcade

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Doe Harvard College. Kelvin’s experience captured on a YouTube video has been viewed over 4 million times and continues to inspire other young people in his country and around the world. Kelvin is presently continuing his high school education at Prince of Wales secondary school SierraLeone. in problems in his community. At the age of 10, he started scavenging for scrap electronics inventions. parts his for school after sites dump from Kelvin, together with his team, was a winner of Global Minimum’s Innovate Salone 2012—the inaugural high school innovation challenge in Sierra Leone. He built a radio station for his community out of recycled materials, in addition to homemade batteries and a generator. Kelvin was selected to travel to the U.S. in where2012, he was invited to speak at the “Meet the Young Makers” panel at the World Maker Faire 2012 York. New in Kelvin officially became the youngest ever “visiting practitioner” with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) International Development Initiative. At MIT, he presented his inventions to students in two D-Lab classes, engaged with community members at MIT, and participated in hands-on research at the MIT Media Lab. He has also lectured to undergraduate engineering students at Kelvin Kelvin was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1996 as the youngest of five children. His creative instincts have been with him as a child and he would often dream of solutions to . As if

DareDream to Case ourselves, anything is possible. but he beat the odds. While it would be so easy for someone in his situation never wallow to in self-pity, Kuha’o succumbs pessimism. to his positive Rather, attitude is constant. He knows that being blind will never keep him from realizing his dreams. Like his music, being blind is a necessary part him. of His message is that no matter how difficult our circumstances, and no matter how hard things might are be, we all capable greatness. of As he has demonstrated in his own life, if believe we in a piano, he was only able practice to a few hours each week. But thanks supportive to fans, not only was he able acquire to his own piano this but hepast also year, realized his dream releasingof his first album, all this of is not remarkable Case enough, Kuha’o is blind. Born two underwent months premature, Kuha’o a necessary operation in order save his to life. Unfortunately, complications from the operation left him blind. Doctors expect didn’t him live, to Kuha’o Born and raised on the big island Hawaii, of Case is the oldestKuha’o three of children. His constant smile and enthusiasm for life, together with his remarkable musical abilities and passion, create something inspirational that is positively influencing people all over the world. year-old prodigyIncredibly, this 16 started teaching himself play how the to piano and the organ four short years With ago. limited access to

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Luna Surprisologists have designed over 2,000 surprises for individuals and companies. What out bed of gets Tania every morning is the burning desire teach to people how to use surprise explore to the unknown, lead deep and joyfullives, and make a meaningful impact on others. Tania used surprises, hate to Tania so it’s intriguing that her life is now dedicated understandingto and teaching the science surprise.of She is a psychology instructor at Hunter College and CEO Surprise of Industries, a company that designs surprise experiences and investigates the applications of surprise. She and her team passionate of

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Session 1 Session 2 “There will be a few The Audacity of whY 21 times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and Kuha’oCase

just go for it.” - Judith McNaught MariaToorpakai Wazir

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Mandela a positive image of Africa around the world. Ndaba received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pretoria in 2008, majoring in political science and international relations. He previously served as a senior political consultant to the Embassy of Japan in Pretoria, and was a part of the team that was instrumental in creating the International Day of Happiness at the United Nations. Currently, together with his cousin, Kweku Mandela, he is organizing the 95th celebration of Nelson Mandela day. Ndaba Ndaba is passionate about Africa, its people and its future. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of the Africa Rising Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting

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Session 2 25 Session 2 Notes Storm With her quirky and fearless sense of style, ‘can ‘can style, of sense fearlessquirky and her With the caught has she determination, and attitude do’ warns and press fashion world’s the of attention comin’!” Storm a there’s ready, “Be fans: her Elton’s show, belting out strong, soulful melodies soulful strong, out belting show, Elton’s R&B an had She people. 17,000 of audience an to To frame. teenage petite her defied that groove news page front became she acclaim, critical great press. the by Chancer” “Tiny dubbed and already is Storm Tallia hair,’ ‘big trademark her With and Scotland native her in acclaimed critically well. as world the around audience an gathering It’s uncontrived. and raw is vocal Storm Tallia The the of soulful/jazz deep reminiscent a signature era. Motown Tallia calls world the in artists biggest the of one When there’s onstage, him join to you invite to mobile your happened what is This celebrate! to reason good left had she after Tallia, teenager, Scottish the to Furnish, David partner, John’s Elton Sir with CD her day, following The restaurant. hotel Hawaiian a in has she that her tell to called himself Elton Sir had he signatures vocal exciting most the of one 2012 of summer the in result, a As years. in heard Sir opened Tallia old, years 13 just at Scotland, in

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Session 2 Session 3 “Once we accept The Audacity of whY 27 our limits, we go

beyond them.” - Albert Einstein

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DylanVecchione 29 The Audacity whY of Find more about me here: Find more mulu.me @mulu facebook/teammulu Fox deferring school to work in health clinics on the Thai-Burmese border, and freelanced for the BBC and local wire services in Thailand, IndonesiaTimor. East and Amaryllis later returned to Oxford University, earning her undergraduate degree in 2002. She then attended graduate school at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, focusing on international security and writing an algorithm adopted by the U.S. government for predicting instability in failed states. After graduating in 2003, she spent six years working in government service, both in the U.S. and overseas. Along the way, Amaryllis managed several investment funds, concentrating on alternative energies and electric vehicles. In 2009, she left government service to focus on combining profit and purpose to build socially businesses. sustainable Amaryllis lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her familymakerbot. theirand Amaryllis Amaryllis is the founder and CEO of mulu, an online tool-making global publishers’ content shoppable for charity. Amaryllis has spent a great deal of time in the nonprofit world, Bronner that entrepreneurship is the medium through which which through medium the is entrepreneurship that for up is Kris applied. influentially most is change climbed already having kinds, all of adventures in skydived and Antartica in tennis played Kilimanjaro, Zealand. New and Jack Dorsey are among the many who have have who many the among are Dorsey Jack and will UNREAL™ change the for excitement their shared compared article WSJ recent A world. the in create and Ford’s, and Apple’s to innovations UNREAL™’s food top its of one UNREAL™ named Company Fast will UNREAL™ Kris, to According year. the of stories to inspired are companies other when mission its fulfill “unjunk the world.” creator the also and old years 18 currently is Kris science, loves He food. levitating first world’s the of believes passionately and food, and technology Kristopher mission- a Brands, UNREAL™ of co-founder a is Kris food, junk that proving to dedicated company based obesity and diabetes the to contributor leading a summer, past This “unjunked.” be can epidemic, versions reinvented five launched UNREAL™ stores 25,000 in candies favorite America’s of with side by side sold are candies These nationwide. good. as just taste and same, the cost originals, the sugar. less percent forty and junk zero have also They Brady Tom Bündchen, Gisele Damon, Matt Gates, Bill

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Vecchione was also nominated a Junior Ocean Hero finalist by Oceana andin 2011, the youth organization Kid’s Heroes recognized him as one of its Heroes that same year. Dylan is a certified advanced scuba diver and an avid sailor. He attends the 8th grade at Wildwood School in Los Angeles, CA. of the ReefQuest website and is the creator of its centerpiece, the “Virtual Reef,” the leading digital underwater panoramic photographic record of global coral reefs. Dylan has engineered and built specialized 3D underwater camera systems and Remote Operated Vehicles to capture the Virtual Reef images. He has traveled around the world to image underwater coral reefs for scientific monitoring. The Virtual Reef is being used as a platform for citizen science environmental programs in 48 countries, and over 60,000 students have participated in ReefQuest sponsored research. Dylan is currently authoring a text book for middle and high school environmental science programs. In both and 2011 2012, Dylan received commendations for his work on ReefQuest from President Barack Obama. Dylan was selected as a 2012 Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader—the prestigious mentoring program of the We Are Family Foundation. As a result, Dylan and ReefQuest are currently mentored by ocean conservation organization Oceana’s Senior Scientist, Margot Stiles. Dylan Dylan Dylan is the founder of ReefQuest, the global organization that fosters marine stewardship in kids through citizen science. Despite his young age of Dylan14, leads the development Umazi Kenyans before identifying themselves ethnically. Six Six ethnically. themselves identifying before Kenyans Sophie’s campaign, her launched she since months 4 over of outreach global a had has organization and globally pictures 10,000 over collected million, an such With marches. peace local 15 conducted evident is it campaign, the to response overwhelming is -- youth Kenyan the especially -- world the that readystand to up for peace. Campaign, Sophie launched the I AM KENYAN KENYAN AM I the launched Sophie Campaign, globally a is project KENYAN AM I The project. that campaign awareness driven, Kenyan backed, peace promote to platform a as photography uses The 2013. in elections Kenyan upcoming the during to encouraged are people different simple: is idea AM I tag the with themselves of photograph a take and storyteller powerful a is Photography KENYAN. come Diaspora, the in and locally both Kenyans, when through identity their confirm and of tell to together to sent is message strong a platform, powerful this as themselves see to them encourages It public. the Sophie Kenya, in violence post-election 2007 the During who men three by killed almost was Sophie “enemy an from was she that thought mistakenly and frightened So skin. light her to due tribe” these by exhibited hatred blind the by disgusted of lines the open to had she knew Sophie men, and boundaries cultural across communication understanding. promote Out Inside Martins JR by inspired being After iamkenyan.or.ke Find more about me here: Find more facebook.com/IAmKenyanProject

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Abercrombie & Fitch for sharing the LiveStream for bringing us LIVE importance of diversity with us to the world

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Andrew Jenks for hosting our online Our Film Team - John Hudak, audience with awesomeness Melina Smith and Andres Spillari for capturing the moments and telling Avatar Studios for lending us the our stories piano and space to film the trailer Peter Connors for managing our Boschi Events for a smooth production TEDxTeen stage

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