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The Booster Redux Pittsburg High School
Pittsburg, KS
1978 E. 4th Street
Vol. 106 Issue 3
Presenting professionally AP Language and Composition class hosts TEDx event Words by | Addi Foster n April 25, Pittsburg High School hosted its second annual TEDx event, a showcase of the Great Ideas Projects that the AP Language and Composition students work on throughout the school year. Emily Rountree, AP Language and Composition teacher, hosted the event. She had been preparing students for the TEDx event since the beginning of the school year. In the fall semester, students do socratic seminars about different big current events topics so that the students start thinking about topics they care about. “In the second semester, they read a nonfiction book surrounding their topic and do research in databases, and they learn how to write an annotated bibliography of sources,” Rountree said. “Then, they create their speech, outline and introduction first, then fill in the outline with their research and transitions. Finally, they create a visual aid to accompany their presentation and then present.” All of the students had to present their Great Ideas Projects to their class. From there, students voted for the presentations they would like to see again and Rountree chose 10 to actually participate in the TEDx event. “The students who were speaking made modifications to their speeches and visual aids, and the students who weren’t speaking created tri-fold bulletin boards to showcase during intermission,” Rountree said. Rountree believes that this year’s TEDx event went very well and that there were a variety of different topics this year. “I liked that there were some that I learned a lot from, some that were emotionally evocative, and some that had some humor too, but that all of them were really thought-provoking,” Rountree said. Junior Noah Oliver presented at the TEDx event. His presentation was regarding work culture and burnout due to work. “I picked this topic due to the fact that in America today so many people are so fixated on work that life gets pushed aside,” Oliver said. For Oliver, there wasn’t specific preparation for the event. He just refined his original presentation. “I definitely practiced my speech at home the night before but the preparation wasn’t bad,” Oliver said. “It definitely helped that this was an assignment before it was the event so I had time to become familiar with the topic.” Compared to other public speaking assignments Oliver has completed, the TEDx event was very different from the rest. “I feel it differs a little if you watch a Ted talk on YouTube. They are always very slow and very good at making you tired,” Oliver said. “I feel like it made me slow down and try to replicate that, which differs from what I would do when speaking in debate or forensics.” Along with Oliver, junior Sarah Winzer also presented at the TEDx event. She titled her project
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topic and project to the audience. “I hoped to spread awareness about emotions and help some people with what they can do to cope with them,” Winzer said. “I did have a student tell me that they appreciated the mental health subject matter.” In Winzer’s opinion, the TEDx event is beneficial towards both the presenter and the audience. “It gives the speakers a chance outside of class presentations to share something they’re passionate about and lets them get some practice for public speaking, a skill that may come in handy later in their lives,” Winzer said. “Then, I think that it benefits the students attending by introducing them to topics and stories they may not have heard or known much about.” Overall, the TEDx event provides unique opportunities for students. They are given the chance to research something with longevity that you have to think about very deeply. If students need to learn how to think critically and respect the opinion of others while upholding their own, they need to be given the time to learn all they need to be able to make an informed argument. “I really love that students get to learn from other students about topics that their peers are passionate about, and they get to see their peers doing something that is brave and that they’ve put a lot of work into,” Rountree said. “I also love that when they leave here, they get to say that they were featured TEDx speakers, or that they helped put on a TEDx event.”
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by Sarah Winzer Graphic by | Heather Mowdy About TEDx, x = independently
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TED’s open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The
Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translators Program, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also offers TED@Work a program that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, WorkLife with Adam Grant, Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala and How to Be a Better Human. Follow TED on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and on LinkedIn.
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