Category: TED-Ed Student Talks
Helping girls bridge the confidence gap: A conversation with Illana Raia
Since 2014, thousands of student groups across the globe have been developing and sharing their ideas using our free TED-Ed Student Talks resources. To celebrate 10 years of TED-Ed Student Talks, we have been collecting stories of impact from the program’s [...]
Sparking a school-wide passion for public speaking: A conversation with educator Fernando Oringo
Since 2014, thousands of student groups across the globe have been developing and sharing their ideas using our free TED-Ed Student Talks resources. To celebrate 10 years of TED-Ed Student Talks, we have been collecting stories of impact from the [...]
10 highlights from the new-and-improved Student Talks resources
At TED-Ed, we’re passionate about sharing diverse and meaningful student voices with the world. Since 2014, thousands of student groups across the globe have been developing and sharing their ideas using our free TED-Ed Student Talks resources. To celebrate 10 [...]
TED-Ed’s student materials are now in Spanish!
Our team has a big announcement! Educators working with Spanish-speaking students or students learning Spanish can use our free curriculum to create TED-style Talks with their students in Spanish! Our TED-Ed Student Talks curriculum has been a successful resource in [...]
Student Talks leader shares her experience hosting a youth-centered climate event
In the fall of 2021, TED invited leaders and educators from around the world to participate in COUNTDOWN, a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. JeJuan Stewart, a leader in the TED-Ed Student Talks program [...]
How one student turned an idea into a global mission to end our planet’s plastic waste crisis
In 2018, then 11-year-old Haaziq Kazi delivered his first TED Talk at TED-Ed Weekend and unveiled his prototype invention: a ship called Ervis that cleans plastic from the surface of the ocean. The homemade prototype he created in his bathtub [...]
How one student found purpose in the chaos of 2020
For nine years of school, I was bullied due to my unique interest in STEM and my body weight. I was often classified as the unwanted kid and the class weirdo, thus being cut off from social groups. In those [...]