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View the Program (Pdf) Teen March 1, 2014 “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do The is ignore them… Crazy Ones Teen Welcome 03 The earth is round and it revolves around the sun. Crazy, right? It was a few centuries ago ... not any more. Inventing a cancer detection test out of paper. Creating a radio station out of garbage. Building an arcade out of cardboard. Crazy, right? It was a few years ago ... not any more. Who are the “crazy” ones? They are the ones who follow their hearts, the ones who dare to believe dreams are real, the ones who make the impossible, possible. They go where no one has gone before— not without fear but despite fear. What does it take to be crazy: innovation, imagination, isolation? Is it inherent or can it be learned? This is a revolution of crazy: the teens who don’t just point out problems and talk about ideas, they do something. Just ask 16-year-old Jack Andraka who invented a cancer detection test out of paper, or 14-year-old Kelvin Doe who created a radio station out of garbage, or, 10-year-old Caine Monroy who created an arcade out of cardboard. It’s their time, your time, our time, NOW. Get crazy, be crazy, think crazy and unlock a whole new world of possibilities. Are you crazy? Conference Guide 05 Teen CONFERENCE GUIDE Top to Bottom: Scenes from previous TEDx events; TEDxKalamata, TEDxTeen 2013 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 the network password will be on your zapped, pinged, prodded, and teased. about “Ideas Worth Spreading.” To get name badge. You are welcome to But to benefit from TED’s brand of brain the most out of your conference, soak up use your laptop during breaks in the open therapy, you need to shut down the the information during the talks and then areas and we encourage you to tweet and competition. Forget about work and use the breaks to discuss the information share the information from the conference. school for a few hours. Forget about your with fellow attendees, and let the However, we ask that attendees refrain email. Silence your phone. Experience conversation continue to further push the from laptop use during the sessions. You what is happening on stage, on screen ideas. Use the three words on everyone’s need to focus, and keyboards are and around you. name badges as conversation starters! distracting. If you want to use your laptop Engage in our Social Spaces activities during sessions please take a seat in the 2. SEE EVERY TALK and Breakout Sessions. Eat your food simulcast areas. Use this program to write The best moments seem to happen fast. Use the bathroom quickly. Keep notes. Turn your cell phones, BlackBerries when you least expect them. TEDxTeen your brain 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! TEDxTeen Audition Cook for Kids of Academy Award-nominated IMPACT SOCIAL SPACES Audition to be a speaker at the next Hosted by: Whole Foods Repertory Theatre. Jamal, a former Black TEDxTeen conference! Whole Foods Market is partnering Panther Party member, is the Co-Founder Located in the Upper Lobby at the top with Wellness In the Schools (WITS) of The International Black Panther Film of the escalator THINK Global School to facilitate a hands-on cooking activity Festival, and has been recognized with Drop by the THINK Global School booth to for teens. Wellness in the Schools numerous awards for his work. Finish learn about life at the world’s first traveling inspires healthy eating, environmental Come check out the Finish app, the task high school and represent yourself on our awareness and fitness as a way of life How to Get Noticed management system for procrastinators interactive map. for kids in public schools. Work with an A Conversation Moderated by: that won the 2013 Apple Design Award. experienced chef to create a delicious Farah Pandith You’ll also be able to catch an exclusive Don’t forget to eat! dish in a matter of minutes and learn Farah Pandith is Former Special sneak peek of the iPad version, being Upper Lobby, Bloggers Alley more about the importance of food Representative to Muslim Communities, released soon! & in 6th Floor Breakouts and wellness programs. US State Department. Farah was Whole Foods is providing delicious appointed the first-ever Special Kano Computers lunch & snacks to refuel! Wear What You Care About Representative to Muslim Communities Kano is the first computer that anyone can Hosted by: prinkshop in 2009 by then-Secretary of State make, like Lego. Come by the Kano stand Learn how to create an advocacy Hillary Rodham Clinton. Farah has since to build one yourself! Plug, play, code, and then traveled to more than 80 countries create—games, music, movies, and more. BREAKOUT SESSIONS campaign for your passion using graphics and the power of silk-screen. Customize and launched youth-focused initiatives After raising $1.5 million on Kickstarter, including Generation Change, Viral Peace the Kano kit is making its prototype debut 6th Floor—check your badge! your own TEDxTeen/ “The Crazy Ones” t-shirt with prinkshop and take it home. and Hours Against Hate (a campaign at TEDxTeen. Don’t miss it! Lunches and snacks will be served that was a partner with the London 2012 at your Breakouts Olympic and Paralympic Games). The Bumbys Everyone Can Make Amazing Things A few TEDxTeen attendees were selected Building Community to Change Hosted by: Kickstarter at random to get “A Fair and Honest the World Whether you’re new to Kickstarter or just BLOGGERS ALLEY / Appraisal of Your Appearance” by Hosted by: Thiel Fellowship want to learn more, this workshop will be anonymous performance artists Gill and The Thiel Fellowship gathers some of the an in depth look at bringing a Kickstarter UPPER LOBBY Jill Bumby. If you were one of the lucky world’s most creative and motivated young project to life. Learn how to structure a ones (check your badges!), come catch people, and helps them bring their most project, what kind of rewards work best, Simulcast Area a glimpse of how strangers perceive ambitious ideas and projects to life. In and other helpful tips. Blog and tweet from your computer here! you when The Bumbys write you a funny, this session we’ll talk about how the Thiel This is also where food will be served typewritten story that’s yours to keep. If Fellowship created a powerful community How to Get Your Story Across during the breaks. not, come check them out and see what of young visionaries, and discuss how Using Film they have to say about your friends! you can change the world by building an A Conversation Moderated by: Whole Foods Breakfast intentional community around your project.
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