Theme: i INSPIRE

TEDxYouth@Krungthep is the first TEDx event for youth in Bangkok, Thailand. The speakers will be people who have inspired others in the arts, technology, and with their lives. Brought to Thailand by the organizer of TEDxKrungthep 2010, this event is organized for youth in Thailand and around Southeast Asia. It will be held at Concordian International School, the venue for TEDx Krungthep 2010 and the recent UNESCO Youth Conference for Peace sponsored by UNESCO.

This event is open to sponsorship and the audience will be formed via invitation.

Concordian International School
Bangkaew 918 Moo 8 Bangna-trad Km.7 Road, Bang Phli
Samut Prakan, 10540
Thailand

Aimmy Taranan Asavatevavith

Aimmy Taranan Asavatevavith is a 3rd year BBA student at Chulalongkorn University. She loves reading and community service. She will speak about the Soil Booster project, a community outreach project that won a National Competition in Thailand. Her team helped a community in Chachengsao Province to become ‘green’ by changing from chemical fertilizers to organic earthworm fertilizers.

Betty Park

Betty Park is a Grade 11 student at Concordian International School. She is a Third Culture Kid (TCK), being Korean by family origin, born in Thailand, and a citizen of the IB World where her friends are from different cultures. She will be speaking about what it means to be a TCK and how it affects her worldview.

Fong Chearavanont

Fong Chearavanont and Praew Sawarin Phummarin are Grade 10 students at Concordian International School. Last summer, Fong and Praew traveled to Chiang Mai to a shelter for battered women, to ask the question, What do women do to move on after being raped or abused? They met women who have struggled against social stigma and used their own artistic sensitivities and leadership to create an organization called VOICES. Fong and Praew will share how Voices has become an organization which raises awareness for women who have been through violence in their lives, and triumphed.

Praew Sawarin Phummarin

Fong Chearavanont and Praew Sawarin Phummarin are Grade 10 students at Concordian International School. Last summer, Fong and Praew traveled to Chiang Mai to a shelter for battered women, to ask the question, What do women do to move on after being raped or abused? They met women who have struggled against social stigma and used their own artistic sensitivities and leadership to create an organization called VOICES. Fong and Praew will share how Voices has become an organization which raises awareness for women who have been through violence in their lives, and triumphed.

Mymai Yuan

Mymai Yuan is a student at New International School of Thailand. She is 16 years old and is half Thai-half Taiwanese. Inspired by Sarah Kay, she is speaking on spoken poetry; a movement that she has been trying to spread throughout her school. Mymai says of spoken poetry, “It involves a number of a range of creative abilities that can all be put to use: music, drama, creation and structuring of literature.”

Supatra Muenkarn

Supatra Muenkarn is a student at Baan Pang Sawan School. She will speak about her experiences winning a writing contest and later, becoming the host for her school’s television show and interviewing leaders in Thai society.

Tan Nitchnaree Peneakchanasak

Tan Nitchnaree Peneakchanasak is a 15-year old Thai girl who fell onto an MRT track at the Ang Mo Kio MRT station in Singapore and as a result lost both her legs in April 2011. Listen to her touching story as she recounts her tragedy and tells us how she recovered and was inspired onto new paths in her life.

Tharin Sethi

Tharin Sethi is a Year 13 student at New International School of Thailand. He will be speaking about children living with HIV-AIDS.

Daven Ross

Daven Ross is a Grade 9 student at Concordian International School. He speaks about his summer project “M4N” bringing medicines to tribal communities in the North of Thailand.

Mercy-Angela Nantongo

Mercy Angela Nantongo is a 17 year old IB student at Concordian International School. Angela wanted to be like her sister Nicole, who found a way to earn an IB education in Costa Rica. Angela recounts her inspiring story of how being a risk taker took her from her home in Uganda through four time zones into Bangkok, and how this has made a difference.

Sasithorn Chaisong

Sasithorn Chaisong is a student at Bann Pang Sa-wan School in rural Thailand. She speaks about how her being an English Master of Ceremony has been the cornerstone of her journey as a learner and Thai citizen.