Welcome

Welcome to our 1st TEDx Meet-Up!

What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxRinglingCollege, where
x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxRinglingCollege event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. For more information visit http://www.ted.com/tedx.

What is a Meet-Up?
A meet-up as originally defined, is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world.

TEDxRinglingCollege Student Meet-Up:
TEDx Meet-Up as we define it here is an offline event that allows participants to find and join other individuals unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies – and share their ideas. Participants can go online in advance of our February 6th Official TEDxRinglingCollege Student Meet-up event and begin to determine what topic they want to meet about. In other words bring their online conversation > offline to the group.

This TEDxRinglingCollege Student Meet-Up website will help launch the event and allow participants to arrange their ideas by categories, such as technology, entertainment, design, business, science, or global issues.

Featured Videos

Technology

• BIll Gates - How I'm trying to change the world now
• billy graham - technology, faith, and human shortcomings
• Dean kamen - new prosthetic arm for veterans
• evan williams - how twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

Design

• paola antonelli - design and the elastic mind
• milton glaser - how great design makes ideas new
• john maeda - my journey in design, from tofu to risd
• amy tan - where does creativity hide?

Science

• david bolinsky - fantastic voyage inside a cell
• daniel libeskind - daniel libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration

Alan Brody's "Don't Say No" Student Meet-Up Session

Our guest speaker for the TEDxRingling College Student Meet-Up was MIT's drama professor, Alan Brody. In his session, Don't Say No, Brody showed students that drama acting isn't just for showbiz - it can be applied to all of the different diciplines and occupations in life.