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