Theme: No Limits

The members of TED-Ed Club have been granted the opportunity to fully plan and coordinate a TEDxYouth event independently, on a community by community basis. The name of our event is TEDxYouth@CIS. Since this is a youth event our target audience, demographically, will be teenagers from our own school as well as other schools in the city. Our goal is to organise a day filled with brilliant speakers and thought provoking videos. We encourage you to attend this event in Calcutta International School, Kolkata. Not only will we have speakers sharing ideas worth spreading through talks, but our event will also be a platform where Dancers, DJs, Singers get to showcase their talent.

Calcutta International School
724, Anandapur, Adarsha Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700107
Kolkata, West Bengal, 700107
India

Aman Kumar

Speaker + Co-Founder

Mr.Aman Kumar is the CEO of Teeshood, a customized merchandize store for buying or designing t-shirts now just in the short span of time. The name of his talk is : 'Life is what you make it' "Normally when we talk about entrepreneurship or any entrepreneur, there is always a very classy successful story connected to it. And though we enjoy reading that but at the same time it doesn’t leave much impact on us. Why? Because we don’t feel connected to it. As when we hear few entrepreneur’s stories it senses like they were made for it or they had some early signs of becoming an entrepreneur. Maybe they had achieved many accolades since their childhood and we were just busy in going with the flow and being average novice each time", says Mr.Kumar

Anouska Saraf

Speaker

Anouska Saraf will be speaking about Mental Health Awareness or the lack thereof. 17-year-old Anouska Saraf started a campaign called Speak Now last year following a summer internship in a mental health department at a hospital where she realised how genuine the need for a voice was for mental illnesses to be properly understood. The Campaign works to raise awareness about mental illnesses and provides avenues to those who require treatment through short films, poster campaigns, talk sessions and wellness activities. With a core committee made up entirely of young people who work closely with Anouska, Speak Now has grown to help many young people who have faced mental issues and its message of the "need to speak out" has reached much of the community. Since it is a part of her daily life, Anouska has gained a very detailed and clear insight into mental health and the issues surrounding it and how it has become an absolute necessity for it to be accepted and understood.

Ayaan Burman

Musical Entrepreneur

Ayaan Burman is a musical entrepreneur who started singing when he was 2 years of age. He was introduced to singing by his parents at a very young age. He is going to perform Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and couple of other musical artists who are icons in the eyes of Mr.Burman.

Rishabh Chakraborty

Musical Entrepreneur

He is a music producer who makes music on his laptop He got into music because he loves how people can be so emotionally attached to it, He loves how it has the ability to make people cry. "It brings people together from all over the world, music has the capability to erase all boundaries. It brings smiles to faces and makes people feel special.This is why I wanted to be a part of it and make music", says Rishabh

Sara Muthedath

Speaker

Sara Muthedath is from the 11th grade of Calcutta International School. Generally, she is interested in music, literature, people, and is always up for a conversation regarding anything human. She chose to talk about feminism, and how to use it as a tool, because it's something that she is very passionate about, and something she fears gets a bad rap. "I am passionate about it because, whether or not we are aware of it, all of us are parts of various social systems, and things like feminism show you how to question the systems you're in, and to demand you're treated the same way as everyone else. I think that's important.", says Ms.Sara Muthedath

Shraddha Datta

Speaker

TOPIC : The True Self Shraddha is a school student that enjoys contemplating how society views abstract ideas such as art, truth etc. and how it affects who we become and who we are. She believes it is important to analyze these concepts so as to be able to better ourselves and hence better help other people.

Skannd Tyagi

Chief Dreamer at Tyagi Corporation

Skannd is a serial entrepreneur, painter, pilot, designer and a super-nerd. He has an incorrigible passion for innovation and ideas which has manifested itself in the companies that he’s started. "I believe that technology is the Achilles' heel of most world problems. We're focusing on specific sectors which are impactful and where we can work on solving the problems of tomorrow. ", he says. The topic of Skannd’s talk is "Mischief Managed” where he will share anecdotes about his childhood and how they shaped his reality. He will share about how his limitless capacity for mischief landed him in interesting situations as a child, and how those lessons still make him unlock the complexities of life.

Suryaansh Basumallik

Speaker

TOPIC : Ideological theory on creativity. I feel many students no matter what the age, face a lot of difficulty with efficiency, I too face this problem and feel that I have essentially overcome it . Everyone has an idol, someone they see and have been motivated by, I personally idolize a teacher of mine in school and a monk called Jay Shetty. These individuals have helped me grow, expand my mind to broader horizons and try and believe to achieve. I want to share myself on this platform the idea that stuck me, this thought that blew past me but still landed right in the center of my thoughts, I want to share this with the world, I want to share what helps me expand further as an individual in many ways. I sincerely believe that this topic of mine could be of benefit to many as essentially all it is is and unopened door in ones mind being opened, a very important one. The topic is about one’s creativity that can be harnessed and be shown what can come of it and what is to be achieved.

Svarika Sonthalia

Speaker

Topic: Body positivity and breaking of stereotypes Svarika Sonthalia is a 16 year old student studying the IB cuririculum in CIS. Why she chose this topic:According to her this topic is sensational and a raging issue in our world today. "Although people have started speaking up against topics such as the contorted perception of beauty, we still cannot stop ourselves from passing snide comments which hurt others' self confidence and esteem." - Svarika Sonthalia Why she want to speak on this topic: She says stereotypes are a problematic topic in the society today. She wants stigma surrounding body types and "ideal beauty" to be broken and what better way to do this, than to start with our own city.