TEDxScarsdale2021 will take place Saturday, October 9th at 6:30 EST.
Live premiere: https://youtu.be/awxAu-_dzSs
TEDxScarsdale 2021:
IMPORTANT NOTE: TEDxScarsdale 2021 has been postponed to 6:30pm on October 9th.
Live premiere: https://youtu.be/awxAu-_dzSs
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For the third year in a row, Scarsdale will host a TEDx event, featuring a dynamic lineup of accomplished speakers: Govind Nadathur, Daria Levy, Knikki Hernandez, Ilona Schaal, Christina Chiu. TEDxScarsdale welcomes community residents of all ages. Come join us for TEDxScarsdale 2021 to listen to ideas worth spreading!
TEDxScarsdale 2021 will be premiered on October 9th live on YouTube. Sign up for more information!
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Our Speakers:
Govind Nadathur
Govind Nadathur is an 18-year-old freshman at The Ohio State University, studying Industrial and Systems Engineering. He is from Cincinnati, Ohio. For the past three years, he has conducted research involving nanotechnology and environmental engineering. In 2019, he won 4th place in Environmental Engineering at the International Science and Engineering Fair. In addition, he won the first place Soybean Council Award in Ohio, won the first place award from GE Aviation at the University of Cincinnati Science and Engineering Expo, and won honorable mention at the 2019 International Genius Olympiad. In 2020, he won 1st place from the Ohio Mars Society at the UC Science and Engineering Expo and won the 1st place Believe in Ohio STEM entrepreneurship award at Ohio State Science Day. In 2020, he was nominated to speak at multiple TEDx talks about his research. Outside of scientific research, he is an Eagle Scout, loves camping, hiking, weightlifting, and learning about business and psychology.
Daria Levy
Daria Levy is a Junior at Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey. She is a part-time barista and enjoys taking part in Student Council, the Debate Team, and Philosophy Club. Daria is passionate about helping others and would like to pursue politics in the future. Apart from being with friends and family, Daria enjoys running her coffee blog and meeting new customers.
Knikki Hernandez
Knikki Hernandez is the author of the book “Empowering Gen Z: Practical Lessons to Take Students From Z to A++” and a high school Spanish teacher in Central Virginia. She specializes in assisting others in navigating the dynamic and complex educational landscape through training on communication between Gen X, Y, & Z, reading & writing, and cultural competency. Additionally, as the CEO & creator of Turning The Tide Teachables, she is responsible for providing access to the most cutting edge and efficient tools for her teacher clients to utilize to create stable and positive classroom cultures. She is a powerful force in the educational world and uses her positive attitude and tireless energy to provide clarity to others in terms of how they can become the best version of themselves and connect despite the generational differences.
Ilona Schaal
Ilona Parukanova is a 5X Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and a Founder and CEO of IP Resilience Global.
Ilona is an direct descendant of an Armenian Genocide survivors during WWI and survived the wartime in Republic of Georgia right after the collapse of the USSR. Over the years Ilona has succeeded in turning her disparities from war, losses, struggles to fit in, every “No” in her life, into her super powers.
Ilona rose above all odds to obtain Doctorate Degree in Family Christian Counseling and her PhD in Christian Philosophy. As a Master Coach she empowers people to find their voice even in the darkest times of their life and imparts courage and self-confidence so that they, too, can experience liberty in all of its best.
She is an International TEDx speaker and is featured in Fox, NBC, CBC, Influencive, Powerhouse and Forbes Magazines.
Ilona introduces herself unapologetically as God’s Masterpiece and puts God as a CEO of her life.
Christina Chiu
Christina Chiu is a speaker, author, literary host, and storyteller. She is the Grand Prize Winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel Beauty, which was also selected as a Kirkus Best Books of 2020 and was the gold winner of the Human Relations Indie Book Awards. She is also author of Troublemaker and Other Saints, a nominee for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award and winner of the Asian American Literary Award.
Chiu’s work appears in journals and anthologies including Tin House, The New Guard, Washington Square, The MacGuffin, Charlie Chan is Dead 2, Not the Only One, Washington Square, and others; she has won literary prizes from Playboy, New Stone Circle, El Dorado Writers’ Guild, The APA Journal: “In the Heart.” Her story “Waves” was nominated for the Pushcart. Her essays appear in Electric Literature, Next Tribe, and Publisher’s Weekly. She hosts New York Writers Workshop’s “Let’s Talk Books” author reading series and curates and co-hosts the Pen Parentis Literary Salon.
ABOUT TEDxSCARSDALE
WHAT ARE TED TALKS?
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
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The TEDx Program is designed to help communities, organizations and individuals to spark conversation and connection through local TED-like experiences.
At TEDx events, a screening of TED Talks videos — or a combination of live presenters and TED Talks videos — sparks deep conversation and connections at the local level. TEDx events are planned and coordinated independently, under a free license granted by TED.
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Rowan, Rishika, Ethan
The TEDxScarsdale Team