Originally Published 3.4.2014 on http://kellifrias.net

Previously, we visited five great reasons why TEDx should be brought together with higher learning. At last, those individual reasons were seen in practice last month, when TEDx finally came to Texas Tech on 8 February. As the first TEDx event organized by the school, the conference was met with a warmth and enthusiasm from students and faculty alike. TED’s motto is “ideas worth sharing”, and their commitment to this philosophy of shared knowledge is what made the TEDx event at Texas Tech possible. TED Talks are already wildly popular, but TEDx is an initiative that allows for independently organized events under the larger TED umbrella (the ‘x’ signifies an independently organized event).

 

The event was restricted to limited attendance, but the great thing about TEDx is that it allowed for a live webcast in order to get these ideas to a vastly broader audience. And even better, the TEDx Talks from the Texas Tech conference have been compiled into a playlist to be found on Youtube. The ideas worth sharing came from a diverse pool of speakers: undergraduate students, graduate students, Ph.D. candidates, researchers, professors, humanitarians, and entrepreneurs alike.

 

Over 15 individuals presented their ideas at the TEDx conference: Read more about them here: http://tedx.ttu.edu/speakers.php