Youth@Granville
x = independently organized TED event

Theme: Above and Beyond

This event occurred on
June 28, 2015
9:00am - 6:00pm PDT
(UTC -7hrs)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

This is a TEDx event run by youth for youth.

Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2G6
Canada
Event type:
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Speakers

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Anushka Kurian

Anushka Kurian is a grade 11 writer, youth journalist, and humanitarian who believes that a world of peace, unity, and acceptance begins with finding those things within yourself. In a talk that explores the modern challenges her generation must face, the overlooked importance of respecting yourself, and why self-love is an alarmingly shrinking force, she harbours a question that challenges youth to decide for themselves who they are. “What is success?”

Brent Hayden

Brent Hayden is a former international swimmer from Canada. Hayden was a bronze medal winner in the 100m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He was co-World Champion in the same event in 2007 with Filippo Magnini of Italy. By winning the 100m, Hayden became the first Canadian in 21 years to win a gold medal at the World Aquatic Championships. He was also the first Canadian to appear in the 100m final at the Olympics since Dick Pound at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the 100m. Hayden adds a further 3 silver and 1 bronze medal to his World Championship totals. He is the current reigning Commonwealth Games champion in both the 50m and 100m freestyle events. In addition, Hayden is currently the Canadian record holder in the 200m, 100m and 50m freestyle in both the short-course and long-course. He is also a former World Record Holder in the 4×100m medley relay, and the 4×200m freestyle relay."

Chris Bolton

Chris Bolton is a grade 12 student from North Vancouver. His talk will follow the social change created by innovative youth using empowering technology. Currently, Chris works at Hootsuite as a software engineer and volunteers with The Next Big Thing Foundation as their National Youth Ambassador. He’s spent the last three years working with schools and districts across Lower Mainland to bring computer science education to the forefront of curriculum. Last Summer, he helped organize The Next Big Thing’s CodeCamp, a two-day event that introduced over 250 students to web programming. Chris also plays an active role as an advisor to organizations like the YWCA Metro Vancouver to develop workshops and sessions aiming to raise the level of digital literacy among young students.

Duncan Stothers

I am a grade 12 student from St. George's School in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. Innovation and 'inventing solutions to everyday problems' has been a focus of my life since elementary school. In the last 5 years I have pursued my passion for inventing: finding solutions for problems such as designing a biodegradable packing material, designing a new bike frame which prevents head over heals (pitch over) after crashing head on and novel new ways to cool computer CPU's. Every invention has challenges - overcoming these and being able to persist at times of failure is a key in seeing your inventing dreams come true… When I am not in school I live with my twin brother and my younger twin brothers and I enjoy sports (downhill skiing in particular) and music..

Jan Lim

Entering her Grade 11 year as an International Baccalaureate student at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary, Jan Lim strives each day to make a meaningful contribution to her local community. She holds an immense passion for student government, having being elected as the Vice President of Churchill for the 2015-16 school year. Dedicated to helping others achieve, Jan is also the Co-President of Starts With One, a non-profit youth organization committed to raising funds for disadvantaged schools and students within the Vancouver region. Furthermore, she is an advocate for autism rights. Being personally connected to many youth with autism, Jan hopes to reveal the reality of the mental disability and uproot its misconceptions. Acquainted with the incredible lengths to which those with autism can exceed expectations, Jan hopes to inspire a newfound comprehension of the disability and is honored to be able to speak at TEDxYouth@Granville.

Miyoung Lee

Multiple Webster nominee and RTNDA winner, Miyoung Lee rings in her thirteenth year with CBC as the host of CBC News Vancouver at 11pm. Miyoung began her career as an intern at CBC the day before the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. And, so began her journey into reporting some of the biggest stories of the next decade including the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, the Queen of the North sinking and the taser death of Robert Dziekanski. Miyoung strongly believes in giving back to the community. Miyoung is married with two daughters and spends much of her spare time mentoring high school students aspiring for a career in Journalism, as well as volunteering with the Richmond Student Parent Colt Program, an organization that supports teen mothers to complete their high school education. Her community and career ambitions are evident as her accolades continue to grow.

Rene Wang

Rene Wang is a multidisciplinary entrepreneur, artist, and change agent. A real estate investor since her early 20s, she is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Illumina Investments Group, which focuses on the acquisition and development of commercial real estate in the United States, with a specialization in retail centres. She published a best-selling travel book about Europe in Chinese to inspire youths in Chinese-speaking countries to expand their horizons. She has also worked as a volunteer on youth-related international development projects in Nepal and Vanuatu. An adventurous globetrotter, Rene has visited almost 50 countries. She is also a futurist who is passionate about bio-hacking, life-hacking, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and high conscious living. She is driven to inspire and elevate other people’s performance and consciousness.

Vivek Chachcha

Vivek Chachcha is a 3rd year Computer Science student at the University of British Columbia, currently on co-op working as a Software Developer Intern at SAP Vancouver. Vivek knew he was meant for computer science when, at 10 years old, he created his first website just to store links to his favourite online games. Even throughout his high school International Baccalaureate education, his focus was always on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and their various applications in the real world. When Vivek was introduced to Science Expo, a national non-profit organization focused on STEM, he was able to connect both of his worlds. Vivek has had the chance to study and explore why it is so important for students to learn how to network. He, along with the Science Expo team, is currently working to find the best methods through which high school students can learn the in's and out's of networking.

Vivek Chachcha

Vivek Chachcha is a 3rd year Computer Science student at the University of British Columbia, currently on co-op working as a Software Developer Intern at SAP Vancouver. Vivek knew he was meant for computer science when, at 10 years old, he created his first website just to store links to his favourite online games. Even throughout his high school International Baccalaureate education, his focus was always on STEM and their various applications in the real world. Outside of his schooling, Vivek has always had a passion for working with youth-led non-profit organizations. When Vivek was introduced to Science Expo, a national non-profit organization focused on STEM, he was able to connect both of his worlds. One of the immediate problems that Vivek saw however, was the lack of education around networking for STEM-based students. Through his work with Science Expo, Vivek has had the chance to study and explore why it is so important for students to learn how to network.

Zamina Mithani

Entering her first year at the University of British Columbia, Zamina Mithani is an active youth leader and who aspires to shift paradigms in order to empower communities. Through volunteering annually in Karbala, Iraq, she has witnessed unbreakable cycles of poverty shackled by corruption. Therein she realized that popular forms of charity failed to focus on the community at need, but rather the motives of the donor. Not only does this experience continue to affect her own community involvement, as a leader in Model United Nations, interfaith dialogue, and community service with disabled children and seniors, but it also affects her view of humanitarianism globally. By examining why we give, or why we don’t, she hopes to be a catalyst for discussing how can we work collectively to give to right causes, in the right way, and for the right reasons.

Organizing team

Pranav
Reddy

Baltimore, MD, United States
Organizer

Jane
Zhao

Vancouver B.C., Canada
Co-organizer
  • Sunny Cui
    Co-Chair
  • Katherine Pan
    Human Resources Director
  • Eric Guo
    Director of Operations
  • Mingxin Gong
    IT Director
  • Sandy Pang
    Marketing Director