Theme: Youth Development

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, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. 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).

TEDxTimberCreekHigh
1001 Avalon Park Boulevard
Orlando, Florida, 32828
United States

Anne-Marie Wurzel

Real Estate Agent

Anne-Marie Wurzel is one of the top realtors in Orlando. She has consistently achieved star status since her early days in 2005. She is raising an amazing little girl with an equally amazing story. Unexpected hard realities of health have challenged her daughter, Reagan, and fueled Anne-Marie’s courage to care for her. She serves as an advocate for special needs children and drives fundraising and social services through partnerships with the Orlando Ballet, Nemours and Orlando Health. She loves to write, talk, travel, and dream. She faces life’s toughest challenges with an infectious positive attitude. She’s the type of person you want to know, and get to know better.

Maria Salamanca

Venture Capitalist

Works alongside Unshackled VC’s partners to find, fund, and support immigrant entrepreneurs solving bold problems with technology. She immigrated from Colombia at age 7 and became a citizen at age 18. It is her own immigration story of fleeing Colombia and achieving access to the American Dream that motivates her to uplift others by eliminating the barriers to entry. Although her narrative is unique, it connects her to many others struggling to navigate systems in the US––it is to them, that she dedicates her dreams, aspirations, and life work. She was also a Timber Creek alumni and honored through Forbes 30 Under 30.

Marianne DiQuattro

Theatre and Literature

She comes to the theatre department through her research interests in the intersection of dramatic literature, performance history, and phenomenology and through her artistic interest in directing, theatre for small communities, and theatre for and with children. She is the founder and artistic director of Paper Sky Theatre in Grove City, PA. It is a nonprofit theatre that seeks to be a location for theatrical excellence, education, inclusion, and community development.

Story Musgrave

American Physician

Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He has been on six spaced missions with NASA and earned a National Defense Service Medal.Today he operates a palm farm in Orlando, FL, a production company in Sydney and a sculpture company in Burbank, CA. He is also a landscape architect, a concept artist with Walt Disney Imagineering, an innovator with Applied Minds Inc. and a professor of design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Story also performs multimedia presentations on topics such as vision, leadership, motivation, safety, quality, innovation, creativity, design, simplicity, beauty and ecology.