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. Jamal Joseph 9:00am–10:15am: Whole Foods We Are Family Foundation welcomes you to Scholastic with a Jamal Joseph is a writer, director, & prinkshop delicious breakfast to kick off the day! documentary filmmaker, professor at Pick up a cool TEDxTeen t-shirt, designed ’s Graduate School of by prinkshop, and get inspired from the Arts, and Founder & Artistic Director watching our past TEDxTeen talks!! Schedule Schedule 09 Of Events Session1 Session 2 Session3

9:00am 10:30am–12:00pm 1:00pm–2:30pm 3:30pm–5:00pm (Doors Open) (Auditorium and TEDxTeen.com) (Auditorium and TEDxTeen.com) (Auditorium and TEDxTeen.com) TEDxTeen guests arrive Chris Anderson An Exclusive Interview William LeGate 9:00am–10:15am What Is TED/TEDx? with Unlocking the Truth Coding Your Own Future (Lower Lobby, Upper Lobby) Special Surprise Performance Marian Bechtel Mark van der Heijden The Conversation begins Banjos, Landmines & Saying Yes How a Piece of Cardboard Meet, talk, think, share, explore, Tim Doner Sent Me Around the World eat a delicious breakfast by Breaking the Language Barrier Alex Klein Whole Foods and prepare! Codes We Live By Kajmere Houchins Marah Zahalka Opportunity, Just What the 10:15am Follow Your Drive Ryan Orbuch Doctor Ordered (Auditorium Doors Open) Still Not Finished Livestream The Bumbys GZA and Science Genius Join us online at TEDxTeen.com How to Look at Strangers Lil Buck The Genius of Science Special Performance Sana Amanat Victoria Rogers Myths, Misfits & Masks 2:30pm–3:30pm Make Amazing Things (Upper Lobby, Lower Lobby 12:00pm–1:00pm Breakout Sessions) 5:00pm–5:45pm (Upper Lobby, Lower Lobby (Upper Lobby, Lower Lobby) Breakout Sessions) BREAK: Meet, talk, think, share, eat, explore, engage and check out Before You Depart: BREAK: Meet, talk, think, share, our awesome Social Spaces and Meet, talk, think, share, eat, explore, engage and check out Breakout Sessions explore and engage our awesome Social Spaces and Breakout Sessions Exclusive speaker and partner Exclusive speaker and partner interviews on TEDxTeen.com interviews on TEDxTeen.com Exclusive speaker and partner The conversation continues online at interviews on TEDxTeen.com TEDxTeen.com, @tedxteen, facebook.com/tedxteen, #TEDxTeen instagram.com/tedxteen The Crazy Ones 11

NileRodgers Host QTip Host

Nile Rodgers is a multiple Grammy Award winning Legendary music innovator Q-Tip rose to musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and prominence as one of the founders of the group co-founder of the band CHIC. Additionally, Nile is A Tribe Called Quest, whose genre-bending considered one of the most influential producers in influences permanently altered hip-hop’s musical the history of popular music and has produced lexicon. In 1998, Q-Tip released his first solo album, some of the biggest hits in the careers of Madonna, Amplified, marking the beginning of a critically David Bowie, Duran Duran, Diana Ross and, most acclaimed solo career. Revered by artists of all currently, Daft Punk, among other artists. genres, Q-Tip’s long list of collaborators includes some of the most influential artists, past and present. With Nile’s iconic stature as a true “hit maker,” he Find more about me here: has brought the world such classic songs as Q-Tip recently appeared in The Gap’s 2013 Holiday Find more about me here: NileRodgers.com “Dance, Dance, Dance,” “Everybody Dance,” Ad Campaign with legendary civil rights activist and facebook.com/Qtip facebook.com/NileRodgersOfficial “I Want Your Love,” “Le Freak (Aw Freak Out),” entertainer Harry Belafonte under the anti-violence instagram.com/QtiptheAbstract @nilerodgers “Good Times,” “We Are Family,” “I’m Coming Out,” slogan, #MakeLove. @QtiptheAbstract instagram.com/NileRodgers “Like A Virgin,” and “Let’s Dance,” among others. WeAreFamilyFoundation.org Most recently, Nile won 3 Grammy Awards for his work with Daft Punk on their global hit album RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES, as well as their MoniqueColeman massive hit single, “Get Lucky.” Online Host

In tandem with Nile’s illustrious music career, he is Monique is most recognized from Disney’s High also the Founder and Chairman of the We Are School Musical. However, her most significant Family Foundation, a City based not-for- role came in 2010 when she was appointed profit organization dedicated to the vision of a global the first United Nations Youth Champion for family through programs that inspire and educate the International Year of Youth. She initiated a the next generation about respect, understanding tour across 24 countries in six months to raise and cultural diversity—while amplifying youth efforts awareness about issues facing youth. Monique to solve some of our biggest global problems. has continued to advocate for young people, focusing on girls education, violence against Find more about me here: women, and peace building. Monique is Founder @gimmemoyouth facebook.com/gimmemotalk and CEO of GimmeMo.com, a multi-platform instagram.com/gimmemotalk community amplifying youth voices and supporting organizations making the world a better place. She will soon appear as Girl Robin in the anticipated Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List. Session 1 Session “If you’re ready The Crazy Ones 13 to give away what’s most precious to you, you may be amazed at what the world gives back.”

- Chris Anderson, TED

TimDoner

MarahZahalka

TheBumbys

SanaAmanat 15 The Crazy Ones Find more about me here: Find more speedsisters.tv . Zahalka Marah Marah Zahalka is from Jenin, city a in the her spent She Territories. Palestinian Occupied youth under curfew and tight military control Because uprising. Palestinian second the during theof intense political situation, she knew it achieve to determination incredible take would her dreams. Marah loves cars. When she was years old, family a 17 friend took her an to autocross race and let her take his car for a spin around the track. that From moment, she was hooked! She went become on to the youngest East’s Middle the Sisters, Speed the of member first all-women race car Today, drivingteam. Marah holds the title “Fastest of Woman in LearnPalestine.” more about her race against documentary, forthcoming the in odds the Sisters Speed TimDoner Tim is a senior at the Dalton School in who has studied over languages. 20 His interest started after at the several age 13, of years French of and Latin, when he began learning Hebrew and soon moved more on to obscure tongues such Ojibwe as Pashto, and Swahili. As he describes his it, goal is not to achieve fluency in each, but ratherto learn the through culture and history foreign about medium language. of He spends much his of time perfecting his linguistic skills in different neighborhoods around and the date his city, to channel has received over 3 millionYouTube hits. Tim has been interviewed (in English, Mandarin, Arabic and Farsi, among others) for media outlets such as Times, The New York Reuters Show, andthe The BBC, The Today Economist. He is starting his freshman year at Harvard next year and plans study to linguistics. facebook.com/polyglotpal Find more about me here: Find more .com/user/PolyglotPal youtube.com/watch?v=Km9-DiFaxpU Session 1 17 The Crazy Ones Find more about me here: Find more marvel.com allnewmsmarvel.tumblr.com @minib622

, a series that changed the image of Amanat Sana Sana Amanat has been in the publishing industry for the past nine years. Currently, she is an Editor at Marvel Entertainment, developing and managing creative content for the company’s various publishing lines. Her critically-acclaimed the include credits notable Miles a.k.a. Spider-Man Comics Ultimate Morales,the first African-American and Latino Spider-Man, as well as the breakout hit Captain Marvel the femalesuper hero. Most she recently, co-created the first solo seriesto featurea which Marvel, Ms. hero, super female Muslim gained worldwide media attention, sparking excitement and dialogue about identity and the serves a also as She struggle. Muslim-American LeadersYoung Committee boardmember at promotes that organization an Peace, Seeds of the empowerment youth of in regions conflict. of , , been . , The New Yorker, ; since then, they’ve 8 Vogue Italia and, ELLE Vogue TheBumbys performance anonymous are Bumbys The artists Fair who and provideHonest “A Appraisal Appearance” Your of using nothing more than analog typewriters and charming wit. They first performed in a subway station as a social experiment in 200 performed nationally and internationally on behalf Whitney of Museum American of Art, Microsoft, Bad Robot, ArtElysium, of Vogue MTV and Berklee College Music, of name to a They’ve writtenfew. for Magazine New York and art residencies, multiple for commissioned been profiledby CBS News and publications Theincluding Times New York The LA Times Experiencing a performance The by Bumbys is as simple as it sounds: participants stand in front of The Bumbys while they type out a personalized narrative that playfully describes how each individual’s appearance is read the by world. Instead snarky of takedowns, appraisals The by Bumbys are warm and funny; they believe it’s most interesting look to for the good in people, and then help to them see too. it, Founded on an outlandish idea, The Bumbys are allabout living in the present, lettinggo and taking creative risks; they are champions the of idea that you can find an authentic and sustainable meeting point between art and commerce. While The Bumbys will be taking the stage at for an exclusive performance,TEDxTeen as they are anonymous and do not speak in public, their creative Viranda director, will be bringing Tantula, their talk life. to thebumbys.com Find more about us here: Find more

Session 1 Session 1 Notes 19 Session 2 Session “Only those who The Crazy Ones 21 risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

- T.S. Eliot

UnlockingtheTruth

MarianBechtel

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The Crazy Ones Find more about me here: Find more jmu.edu/cisr/journal/17.2/ @pialamode314 . as one of their Top 10 10 as one their of Top Bechtel Marian Marian Bechtel is a sophomore at Bryn Mawr College studying geology, physics, and gender Marianstudies. age At 13, had her eyes opened the horrorsto land of mines. She met a group of international scientists working on a device that utilized holographic radar detect to buried land mines (RASCAN), and was inspired their by work. The one weakness in their device, they said, was that it was rendered useless in wet environments. One day while playing the piano, Marian noticed that the strings onnearby a banjo resonated when she played certain notes or chords. This gave her an realized idea—she that using acoustic or seismic a buried excite waves to land mine could allow for its detection, even in wet soils. Thus, she joined her with de-mining humanitarian for passion newfound her music, love of and embarked on a long scientific goingjourney, through three different projects to further this idea, and eventually creating a simple prototype an of acoustic detection device on the frame a scrap of metal detector. researchMarian’s projects took her across the country many to science fairs, including Intel ISEF and even around the and world, the to I-SWEEEP, in Exhibition Science Summer 250th Society’s Royal DavidsonLondon. and Fellow, a Marian was a 2011 IntelTalent Sciencefinalist Search, in the 2012 where she was awarded Seaborg the Glenn award for T. public. the to science communicating in passion She was also featured issue in of the August 2012 Popular Science Magazine Inventors. School High Marian published her work issue in the Summer 2013 theof Journal of ERW and Mine Action

theTruth Unlocking Unlocking is a young the metal Truth band from Brooklyn, who write New York, and create their own lyrics and music. The band members are Malcolm (drums) Dawkins Brickhouse Alec (guitar), and Jarad Atkins (bass). Unlocking competedIn the March Truth on 2012, Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater and made it the Show-Offto Round, and afterward they began performing at festivals around City New York and in . One biggest the of band’s breaks came last August. They were invited perform to at the AfroPunk Festival and nextin New York Fun Festival at the Fun, Fun, in Austin, Texas. reallyWhat’s exciting is that Unlocking is the Truth playing Coachella at this year’s Music & Arts Festival (the youngest band ever) playing and they’re SXSW. The band recently appeared Dre in a Beats Dr. by and Pharrell commercial, they were featured in the December issue Magazine New of York the as being and New Love they’re York” Reason To “15th reviewed all over the internet. Unlocking has created the Truth enough music to scheduled they’re fact, In CDs. 3 least at complete recordto their first album this spring. goalUnlocking become is to one the of the Truth’s bestworld’s metal bands, and with their music, they want people know to that they could do what they nowant, matter who they are, or what people say. Just be free as you be! want to

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Session 2 25 The Crazy Ones Find more about me here: Find more getfinish.com appstore.com/finish @orbuch Orbuch Ryan Ryan Orbuchis a seniorat Boulder High School in Colorado.Boulder, He is the Founder Basil of Ltd. as well as Co-Creator and Lead Designer the of which iPhone, for Finish application best-selling received an Apple The Design in Award 2013. award recognizes apps that raise the bar in design, innovation. and technology Inspired the by rampant stress and procrastination week, Ryan finals year sophomore his during designed Finish as a unique and streamlined task Known manager. as “the to-do list for on based tasks prioritizes Finish procrastinators,” short, mid and long-term timeframes. Finish has been covered on TechCrunch, Forbes, The CNET, has Ryan Additionally, more. and Post, Huffington been featured nationally on Bloomberg TV and Fox News as an expert on teens and technology. Ryan was the first high school student hired at startup one top Techstars Boulder, the of world’s selected to provides Techstars accelerators. startups seed funding and intensive mentorship entrepreneurs. accomplished from Ryan is also deeply passionate about education reform. Within that vast landscape, Ryan is technology designing in particularly interested and leveraging network effects enable to human Finish While scale. unprecedented hit to behavior is an initial project understand to influence how to Ryan software mechanics, via motivation teenage is actively investigating how student inspiration and motivation can be harnessed and directly enhanced in never ways before possible. ,

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at age 12. at age 12. The New Republic journalist—so now now journalist—so , The Nation , Take the red pill. Wu Tang is forever. the red pill. Tang Wu Take did graphic design for the Lincoln and Center, been kicked off several improv stages inand it. around Other than backing and up the Q-Tip GZA at this wonderful conference, Alex is most proud of his fifty viewingsof the original Matrix AlexKlein Alex is a dilettante. He likes writing,designing and Neolithic cave painting. He couldn’t cutit as an economist or Newsweek computers. makes he Alex is the co-founder Kano, of where he helped create the first computer kit that it the most successful learning product ever to be funded the by Backers crowd. from over 40 countries brought Kano life, and to the open- source computer kit has since been built and reimagined young by people around the world, from Seattle Sierra to Leone. Alex is Kano’s Officerstoryteller. Product and Chief writingAlex’s on society, technology, cults and communists has appeared in Newsweek York Magazine The Times of London, inside and BuzzFeed, the backpacks girls of he liked back in middle- school. He loves words that play and images in the mindthat and stay, over time. He also anyone can make—simple as Legos, teaches teaches Legos, as make—simple can anyone code, gives you superpowers. Kano raised million in 30 days$1.5 on Kickstarter, making kano.me @alexnklein alexklein.com Find more about me here: Find more

Session 2 27 Session 2 Notes Session 2 . , performed performed , The Ellen DeGeneres Show that went viral on YouTube after director that went viral on YouTube After he surpassed all that Memphis couldoffer, Lil Buck moved Los Angeles to when he was 19 pursueto Since a career. then, the sky has been worked onthe projects limit. He’s with Janelle Monáe, with Madonna during her Super Bowl XLVI halftime show and later In joined her MDNA Tour. Damian Woetzel met Lil Buck and paired 2011, Ma in a performance The of him with Yo-Yo Dying Swan Spike Jonze used his cell phone record to an interpretive performance. He has been named Artist International Vail in Residence at the 2011 Dance Festival and has continued work to with Ma for performances U.S.- at the 2011 Yo-Yo China Forum on the Arts and Culture in Beijing. Lil Buck just wrapped up a 9-month contract in the Cirque du Soleil show “Michael Jackson: he is in Las in 2014, One,” Vegas. And now, scheduled be all to over the place showing his skills for the world see. to LilBuck Charles “Lil Buck” Riley was born 1988, May25, in Chicago, IL. While still a small child, he moved with his family Memphis, to TN, where he spent the majority his of youth and adolescence. While growing up in Memphis, Lil Buck was introduced an urbanto street dance style called “Memphis AlwaysJookin.” loving dance, to Lil Buck became a great local involved dancer, in groups such as Subculture Royalty and studying ballet at New after hooking upBallet with Ensemble. 17, At appeared he Armmer, Jai rapper/producer, local in several personal dance videos be featured to and a locally produced Jookinon YouTube DVD Memphis 2 and more called series Jookin, 1, Vol.

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Session 2 Session 3 Session …Because they change The Crazy Ones 29 things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

- Steve Jobs WilliamLeGate

MarkvanderHeijden

KajmereHouchins

GZA&ScienceGenius

VictoriaRogers 31 The Crazy Ones Find more about me here: Find more thebackpackerintern.com markvanderheijden.nl @markvdheijden facebook.com/thebackpackerintern instagram.com/markvanderheijden vimeo.com/markvanderheijden nl.linkedin.com/in/mmarkvanderheijden

vanderHeijden Mark Mark originates from the south Holland, of a quaint country known for tulips, cheese, clogs and coffee shops. For the past seven years, Mark has been submerged in the Amsterdam ad scene—a place he has always felt at home. hisFrom day job as a creative copywriter, to his night job as an advertising instructor at the JUNIOR* his to hobbies Academy, as board member Creatives Dutch of Young and co- founder Creatives, of Cocktails & Dreams, there is not a corner the of ad world Mark has lefthas unexplored. In order break to down the borders his of comfort zone, Mark began a project that would test not only his boundaries, but also the boundaries convention of in the field of communication. Mark In January waved 2014, goodbye his to job(s), tossed his home a into backpack, and hit the world as a wandering lodgings, and food for exchange In intern. Mark helps agencies, brands and charities providing by new perspectives and creative challenges big communication for solutions and small. He kicked off his work/life tour in Thailand, with Amnesty International and the McCann Worldgroup, and is currently continuing only has adventure his Though Asia. through just begun, media attention from Adweek and with him landed has blogs international other spanning organizations offers from of hundreds globe. the

, and have peaked at the second most downloaded spot in the apps brands’ dollar billion above Store, App entire such as Facebook and Google. He was recently awarded the Thiel Fellowship which gives people 20 under years 20 age of a cash grant $100,000 of dropto out school of pursue to their passion, and Business Insider named him as one the of “25 top school high from graduating kids impressive most LeGate William William entrepreneur, LeGate is a 19-year-old programmer,and Thiel He created Fellow. an iOS app Labs, Research Imagination company, development after teachingat age 14 himself Objective C from online Stanford courses. gone Since on then, to he’s create over a dozen apps which have received over 5 million downloads, teenagers, U.S. are used 1 in by 12 have been featured in The Times New York this year.”

@williamlegate Find more about me here: Find more wikipedia.org/wiki/William_LeGate Fake-A-Text APP in the iTunes Store APP in the iTunes Fake-A-Text

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The Crazy Ones Alicia Duncan Media Prep Arts from Johnson Jabari Assembly Urban from Science (Winner of Genius 2013) Richardson Victoria Compass Bronx from Find more about me here: Find more facebook.com/theGZA @therealgza

in the now legendary skits , which will be released Spring lm Coffee & Cigarettes, opposite Bill The Murray. two also appeared on the Chappelle Show ScienceGenius GZA& GZA is a founding member the of seminal hip co-founder and Clan, Wu-Tang the group, hop SCIENCEof GENIUS with Christopher Emdin Teachers College.of The program seeks to science using in students school engage high hip The hop. pilot program met with great success in terms recognition of and results: participating schools saw an increase in regents exams in attendance. scores and When 15-25% asked who member, was his favorite Tang Wu Mayor Bill Elect City, DiBlasio, New of York said “GZA. Not only is he a great lyricist, but I also admire his work engage to African American and Latino students in the sciences.” GZA appeared alongside RZA in Jim fi Jarmusch’s “Wu Tang Financial” and “Racial Draft.” “Racial and Financial” Tang “Wu GZA has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, MIT, USC, NYU, Cornell, and JPL/NASA. In his travels, he has met with myriad scientists seek to inspiration for his forthcoming album entitled MATTER DARK 2014. The project is a natural2014. extension his of longtime fascination with the cosmos. “I will take a quantum leap and discuss the universe while taking us on a journey through deep space. at light speedTraveling from the galactic center oneof galaxy the farthest to corners another. of I hope listeners my will enjoy this cosmic adventure within a world colossal of planets, gas giants, meteorites, comets, and asteroids in the most extreme conditions.”

never thought possible. thought never Six yearscancer-free, life Kajmere’s has taken on many twists and turns places into she never intended, light bright imagined! Kajmere’s never she results with and desireteach to young people step outside how to as impossible the imagine to circumstances their of possible led her found to The a website Powercave, designed empower to and motivate teens become to active participants in their own lives and communities. She is a board member for the Seattle People Young Project and she works advocate to for youth in an effective Kajmere manner. is the president Stop of she group anti-bullying an Wide, Bullying World founded. Sharing her story illness, of survival and speaks Kajmere possible, impossible the making at schools regarding bullying. In November 2013, Kajmere changedWashington allow State law to students participate to in anti-bullying policy making. Having a heart for the youth her of generation, Kajmere collects items for homeless teens in her area and has helped start a clothing closet at her school. Her work continues. Houchins Kajmere By all accounts, Kajmere Houchins’ “story” was hanging was Kajmere Neuroblastoma, IV Stage with on for life, looking carve to her own path. Her survival and subsequent diagnosis AML of in 2008 put Kajmere back in fighting mode on a journeyof self- discovery, walking on faith and tryingthings she never meant extend to past her6th birthday. the At age fourteen, of this dynamic three-time cancer survivor has beaten the odds. Diagnosed in 2005 facebook.com/ thepowercave.com Find more about me here: Find more facebook.com/thepowercave kajmerehouchinsyouthactivist

Session 3 35 Session 3 Notes Session 3 Rogers Victoria Victoria Rogers does outreach on behalf of Kickstarter, working with creators and the institutions a was Victoria Previously, support work. their that Helen Rubenstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney as such art organizations with worked She’s Museum. TheSotheby’s, Metropolitan Museum Art, of Creative Time and Sperone Westwater Gallery. Outside Kickstarter, Victoria is on the board the of Robert F. Kennedy Leaders Young program, and focuses on communities. low-income art in establishing programs Manhattan after to moved Victoria native, Chicago A graduating University. from Yale @kickstarter kickstarter.com/victoria Find more about me here: Find more

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