Instagram user shaffimk contributes to the TEDxYouthDay 2012, “Dream Big…Then Do It!” photo campaign by completing the sentence, “A dream of mine that I commit to making real is…”
To see more dreams shared from youth around the world this past November, visit the TEDxYouthDay website.
A look back at TEDxYouthDay 2012: Instagram user unbelieva contributes to the “Dream Big…Then Do It!” photo campaign by completing the sentence, “A dream of mine that I commit to making real is…”
To see more dreams shared this November from youth around the world, visit the TEDxYouthDay website.
TEDxParkour?: In this video trailer for TEDxYouth@Alexandria, parkour takes center stage, as adventurous young TEDx’ers backflip their way through the Egyptian city — spreading the power of “x” as they go.
When we began promoting the idea last spring to our students that they could give their own TEDx talks at our TEDxYouthDay event, we worried that no students would be interested or willing enough to give it a shot. But we were committed to filling our event with only youth speakers, so when we received seven virtual auditions from two middle and five upper school students this November, we were elated.
The ideas of those seven students, coupled with the three TED/TEDx videos we chose to screen at our event, built a powerful “Dream Big…Then Do It” program. The students really are the heart of our story. They worked on their own to craft their ideas and then trusted their mentors to help them shape their dreams into powerful talks. The honesty, compassion, creativity, and bravery these students spoke about, left our 90-member audience inspired — enough to make this first foray into TEDx a success.
—From Melissa Scott, organizer of TEDxYouth@FHS at Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia — part of TEDxYouthDay this November.
