Elaborate on one of your extra activities
There is no word limit but within 500kb. Here's mine. Please give me some advice.
On Mar. 27, 2016, in the VIP hall of Huanghe Hotel, the spotlight concentrated on the podium covered with a piece of red cloth, on which vigorous high school students exhibited their presentations one by one. Sitting in the front of auditorium, hearing the constant impassioned applause from my back, I recalled the beginning of the story.
"We will make a TedxYouthZYZ with speakers from high schools, and the theme will be Voice of the Youth", I said ardently in the classroom to two of my friends, "the youth in China need a platform to share their valuable thoughts, and we will do that!" We reach an agreement immediately, and started application and preparation without hesitation.
In the beginning, many teachers and predecessors were skeptical with our plan, contending that high school students were not able to develop valuable ideas, but my team and I believed that some ideas belonged to the students, which needed us to discover.
As we started to selected speakers from high school, I discovered that students in my city didn't really know about TED and TEDx, so we planned to hold explanation presentation at different schools to popularize the concept of TED and what we were doing, and at the same time to encourage students with ideas worth spreading to join us.
Everything went on, and we also met some obstacles. As I introduced the idea and plans of TEDxZYZ again and again, Some schools backed us a lot, and they even encourage students to take part in our activity, while some school administrators did not think this event was more important than study. We tried to persuade them, and if we did not make it, we would contact some representatives of students to help us hold propaganda. Still, many students were attracted by us.
As we believed all the time, with the pace of our explanation, a large number of students sent email to us. Their ideas were diversified and inspirational. One of them is a Bisexual, who held idea about love in his own perspective and experience. Another one is the champion of National Model Plane Competition, who shares his apprehension of modal plane beyond science and technology. To my surprise, many students were willing to join our team to organize this event. By the day of TEDxZYZ, our team had reached 26 members in total.
Before the time for speakers, representing the organizing team, I made a short speech, in which I said to the over 300 audience, "It is my honor to share with you the following interesting ideas with you. As a matter of fact, the voice of youth is worth sharing to all of you. Every TEDx, I believe, is organized for the radiant ideas and to spread the ideas worth spreading."
What really impressed me is that TEDxZYZ is really influential. After TEDx, many people from different communities and school came to me and told me that they considered it an excellent idea, and they also want to organize one in their own community. I realized that TEDx is more significant than we thought for the city.
TEDxZYZ - Voice of the Youth
There is no word limit but within 500kb. Here's mine. Please give me some advice.
On Mar. 27, 2016, in the VIP hall of Huanghe Hotel, the spotlight concentrated on the podium covered with a piece of red cloth, on which vigorous high school students exhibited their presentations one by one. Sitting in the front of auditorium, hearing the constant impassioned applause from my back, I recalled the beginning of the story.
"We will make a TedxYouthZYZ with speakers from high schools, and the theme will be Voice of the Youth", I said ardently in the classroom to two of my friends, "the youth in China need a platform to share their valuable thoughts, and we will do that!" We reach an agreement immediately, and started application and preparation without hesitation.
In the beginning, many teachers and predecessors were skeptical with our plan, contending that high school students were not able to develop valuable ideas, but my team and I believed that some ideas belonged to the students, which needed us to discover.
As we started to selected speakers from high school, I discovered that students in my city didn't really know about TED and TEDx, so we planned to hold explanation presentation at different schools to popularize the concept of TED and what we were doing, and at the same time to encourage students with ideas worth spreading to join us.
Everything went on, and we also met some obstacles. As I introduced the idea and plans of TEDxZYZ again and again, Some schools backed us a lot, and they even encourage students to take part in our activity, while some school administrators did not think this event was more important than study. We tried to persuade them, and if we did not make it, we would contact some representatives of students to help us hold propaganda. Still, many students were attracted by us.
As we believed all the time, with the pace of our explanation, a large number of students sent email to us. Their ideas were diversified and inspirational. One of them is a Bisexual, who held idea about love in his own perspective and experience. Another one is the champion of National Model Plane Competition, who shares his apprehension of modal plane beyond science and technology. To my surprise, many students were willing to join our team to organize this event. By the day of TEDxZYZ, our team had reached 26 members in total.
Before the time for speakers, representing the organizing team, I made a short speech, in which I said to the over 300 audience, "It is my honor to share with you the following interesting ideas with you. As a matter of fact, the voice of youth is worth sharing to all of you. Every TEDx, I believe, is organized for the radiant ideas and to spread the ideas worth spreading."
What really impressed me is that TEDxZYZ is really influential. After TEDx, many people from different communities and school came to me and told me that they considered it an excellent idea, and they also want to organize one in their own community. I realized that TEDx is more significant than we thought for the city.