Theme: How does innovation help adapt to an ever-changing society?

The idea of innovation has been a hot one within education, business, technology, and even philosophy. This TEDx will attempt to come up with an answer for this constantly changing world we live in.

Avenues New York
259 10th Ave
New York, New York, 10001
United States

Avalon Scarola

Student

Quantum computers are part of the future. It is almost undeniable. But how do they work? What does a quantum computer look like? What do we want them for? Qubits and Candy Bars will take you through some basics of quantum computing. Dive into the future, and learn about how quantum technologies will affect our lives for years to come!

Cydney Dean

Student

Cydney Dean is a Junior at Avenues: the World School, in New York City. Her TEDx Talk is about effective communication, and more specifically the ways in which we can use video chatting to communicate in education. Communication is an important topic because we often don’t think of how we could use technology with education.

Kelly Brandon

Teacher

Kelly Deckelman Brandon is a Creative Computation teacher in grades 6-12 at Avenues: The World School, NYC. She is committed to bringing computer science education to all students. During the summer she coaches elementary and middle school teachers to integrate CS within existing classroom content as a part of both the STEM Institute and the Computer Science Department at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to teaching, Kelly was a software developer at the Naval Research Laboratory. She has an M.A.T from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame

Lauren Schulsohn

Student

Lauren Schulsohn is currently a senior at Avenues in New York. She has varied interests, and is planning to study international relations and theater in college. This past summer, Lauren flew out to Los Angeles to take a conservatory style course in comedic performance at the University of Southern California. Specifically studying improv, stage-acting, stand-up, comedic writing, and physical comedy, Lauren immediately felt that the stage was her home. Lauren will be speaking about her ambitions to mix both international relations and comedy to create social and political commentary. She recognizes the importance of this work as late-night talk shows have become the forefront of political opposition, discourse and satire.

Mark Gutkowski

Director of Mastery

Mark joined Avenues in 2015 as the Director of Mastery and is currently responsible for the strategic development, execution and evaluation of this visionary program. An award-winning educator and program designer, recognized by both Princeton University and by the New Jersey Department of Education. Mark’s work focuses on empowering student autonomy in the classroom. He received the Avenues Golden Tiger Award in 2018 for the Mastery team’s latest endeavor, the Mastery Learning System.

Mark Jablonski

Basketball Coach and Trainer

Mark Jablonski is a former Wall Street executive who is building a second career as a basketball coach and trainer. His talk focuses on the virtuous circle of developing skill in order to find passion and meaning in your work and the importance of deliberate practice in developing excellence and career capital.

Olivia Miller

Student

Evidence suggests veganism could be the solution to some of the worlds’ greatest problems—environmental crisis, human health and animal exploitation. In a world where complicated technology and drugs are being developed at enormous cost to fight these threats, why not look to the benefits of an ethically sourced, vegan diet?

Oren Schweitzer

Student

Oren Schweitzer is a senior at Avenues New York and passionate about politics and social justice. His talk is on the problem with the center-right nature of American political debate and the need for a political program that breaks out of that constraining mold.

Rosie O'Byrne

Student

By sharing her personal experience and path to veganism, Rosie will talk about the unspoken side of animal agriculture that is more unsustainable and damaging to humans than you may have thought. You will hear about the billions of deaths that do not make the news, the culturally accepted injustices, and the people directly affected by this issue. Some information may be easier to run away from than to hear, but keep your ears open - as well as you mind.

Xiaolin Rong

Student

This TEDx talk is based on Lin's experience teaching students for the past 5 years of her life. For the past 5 years, she has dedicated time along with her team to teach underprivileged students in the countryside of China and Taiwan, and built a non-profit organization named Alkaid. This talk is about Educational Equity through the lens of the stories of students in those places. Educational Equity is a topic that does not get enough attention, and this talk hopes to address these issues.