Carroll College To Host Inaugural TEDx Event

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HELENA – Carroll College’s Theatre Department is hosting the first-ever TEDxCarrollCollege conference on March 14. A selection committee chose nine speakers to present at this inaugural event. Speakers include students, faculty, and local professionals. The mission of TEDxCarrollCollege is to promote local ideas, and advances in research and academia to the Helena and Carroll community.

Our 2020 speakers include:
Brynn Shewman, Anthrozoology and Psychology Student
Katy Wright, Educator
Anna Wurzer, Anthrozoology and Psychology Student
Madison Fernandez, Content Strategist, Communications and Public Relations Student
Jeanette Fregulia, Associate Professor of History
Rachel Carroll Rivas, Co-Executive Director of the Montana Human Rights Network
Rachel Bechtel, Disability Rights Advocate, Psychology and Spanish Student
Marie Bourgeois, Civil Engineer and Biomimicry Professional, Educator
Erik Escobar, Comedian and Educator

This event will take place March 14 in the FLEX Theatre, located on the lower level of Carroll College’s Campus Center. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.tedxcarrollcollege.com. Tickets are $30 for general admission. Only 100 tickets will be sold. Registration begins at 6:30 pm, and the first session of speakers begins at 7:00 pm. Parking is free in the Campus Center lot off of Lyndale. The theatre is fully ADA accessible through the east entrance of the Campus Center.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED conferences, including the annual gathering in Vancouver, as well as TEDWomen, intimate TED Salons and thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world. Videos of these talks are made available, free, on TED.com and other platforms. Audio versions of the talks from TED2019 are published to TED's podcast TED Talks Daily, available on all podcast platforms.

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; TEDSummit, which gathers the most engaged members of the global TED community for brainstorms, discussions, performances, workshops and an eclectic program of mainstage talks; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, WorkLife with Adam GrantTED en Español and Sincerely, X.

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This event is sponsored by SMA Architects.

For more information contact:
Stephen Alan Seder
Technical Director, Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Carroll College
sseder@carroll.edu