2nd Annual TEDx Sioux Falls Youth Event Announced
February 13, 2024 (Sioux Falls, SD) – Out-of-the-box thinking. Ideas worth spreading. Thirteen Sioux Falls School District students are perfecting their presentations for the 2nd Annual TEDx Sioux Falls Youth event to be held Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 7pm at Jefferson High School Auditorium. TED is a nonprofit organization that provides a platform for polished speakers to share short talks to spark conversation, connection, and community. Tickets ($10 for adults; $5 for students) are available immediately at the following link: https://bit.ly/TEDxSF2024 The community is invited and encouraged to attend.
Teachers from the four Sioux Falls Public High Schools evaluated 41 applications and selected 13 students to participate in the event. Speakers are practicing weekly with coaches to develop their ideas and presentations.
Dr. Todd Novak, Jefferson Freshman Academy Coordinator, is the lead organizer of the event. He speaks from experience as a previous TEDx presenter. “The TEDx Sioux Falls Youth event is a journey like none other. These students are really working hard tp create a presentation that is inspiring and unforgettable. We really have some exceptionally talented students in the Sioux Falls School District.”
The 2024 TEDx Sioux Falls Youth speakers and the schools they represent are:
Tarrent Frye - Lincoln High School
Edom Hiruy - Jefferson High School
Rebekah Kane - Jefferson High School
Isabella Krunitzky - Lincoln High School
Alivia Lampe -Jefferson High School
Angeth Mayen - Jefferson High School
Kennedy Miller - Roosevelt High School
Molly Riffle - Lincoln High School
Sureh San - Washington High School
Sophie Spier - Washington High School
Arthur Tao - Lincoln High School
Betelihiem Tecleab - Jefferson High School
Tammy Tran - Lincoln High School
Sioux Falls Superintendent Dr. Jane Stavem meets regularly with high school students. “I am inspired each time I engage in deep conversation with our students. They are more aware of the world, and their place in it, than I think most of us realize. Students need a voice to share their big ideas, concerns, and innovative solutions and stepping onto the ‘big red dot’ at the TEDx Youth Sioux Falls event gives them a powerful opportunity to connect with our community. I hope parents, community members, and business owners will join us to learn what is on the minds of our future leaders.”
Tickets for the TEDx Sioux Falls Youth event ($10 for adults; $5 for students) are immediately available: https://bit.ly/TEDxSF2024
TEDx events in Sioux Falls are licensed by Thadeus Giedd. Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation is the sole sponsor.
About TEDx = Independently Organized Event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED Conferences, intimate TED Salons, and thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world. Videos of these talks are made available, free, on TED.com and other platforms. Audio versions of TED Talks are published to TED Talks Daily, available on all podcast platforms.
TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translators Program, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also offers TED@Work a program that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, WorkLife with Adam Grant, Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala and How to Be a Better Human.
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