The ultimate invention - a catalyst for humanity's downfall | Alicja Wierzchowska | TEDxVLO Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:16
Imagine a reality in which the tools we've created to assist us begin to change the world surrounding us in ways we can't quite comprehend. Not out of spite, but because we underestimated their power. Artificial intelligence has been transforming our world in extraordinary ways and has become one of the most powerful tools known to humanity.It provides us with new opportunities, new ideas. But as with every improvement, this innovative there comes a downside we cannot ignore. And it's not only about the apo ...
How not to waste a life that we've been given | Zuzanna Wiliczkiewicz | TEDxVLO Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:16
Harvard is the hardest university to get into in the world with the acceptance rate being just imagine you how successful and proud of yourself you'll be walking around the campus and looking at everyone around you and do you know what are the odds of us being born one in 400 children that the percentage the same there is going to a lot of zeros. It's 0.0000000000000000% um of the chances of us being born. That's extremely tiny, wouldn't you say.Compared to Harvard, um actually the odds of us being born are ...
From Compassion To Research | Ava Tsapatsaris | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:15
Good morning. At age nine with my friends, we used to braid friendship bracelets. We would sit at my kitchen table after school and on the weekends with a beautiful bag of string of all colors and sit together and braid friendship bracelets.At the time, it was a simple hobby. It was something that brought us together. But this hobby became something bigger when we began to sell these friendship bracelets to raise money for cancer research.We got together as a team for our local Relay for Life chapter of the ...
Beyond The Diagnosis: Finding The Light In Autism | Maggie Hynes | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:15
Beyond the diagnosis, finding light in autism. Imagine this. You're at a family gathering.The air is filled with laughter, conversation, and the smell of a home-cooked meal. Everyone is talking at once. cousins running around, parents catching up, and voices overlapping in a comforting symphony of chaos.At the edge of the room, I notice two boys. One lines up his toy cars with perfect precision, each one angled exactly the same. The other is asking question after question, his curiosity endless, and his ene ...
Vulnerability and Silence In a Noisy World | Erika Lunenfeld | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:15
Hi everyone. When I think about what today's culture calls strength, I think about explosions. I think about um Marvel movies where Chris Evans only cries once in the 10 years he's been involved in them. Um yet um in the movies that have been popular these days in Star Wars in Marvel movies the most highest grossing films of the 2010s it's um sorry um power power means control and the strongest people um tend to hold things together um it amids chaos and I believe that for a long time. I believe that streng ...
Reclaiming Focus Through Mindful Tech | Arthur Luk-Solarz | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:14
Today, I'll show you how I developed Escape Goose and how Escape Goose makes self-control feel like a game, not a challenge. I got the idea for this app because I personally wasted countless hours of my life on social media to the point where the same Clash Royale video would have appeared in my feed. I asked myself, what am I doing with my life.Some people would call this a midlife crisis. I would call this an early life crisis. And it wasn't just me.I saw my friend Asher who at 8:07 a. m. on a school day ...
Multilingual Magic | Constantine Katsoris | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:14
Hello everyone. My name is Constantine Catsures. I'm a senior at Tus University in Boston studying both chemistry and Spanish.I'm also on the premed track there and plan on graduating this May. I've grown up in Eastchester my whole life. I've made some of my closest friends here at Anne Hutch Elementary School and EMS.Uh, all of which I'm still in contact with to this day. However, it wasn't uncommon for me during my elementary and middle school years to have one of the lamest excuses imaginable for missing ...
Anthropic's Claude tops Apple App Store after clash with Pentagon
CNBC Television· 2026-03-02 17:14
stiff all day. Get AT COSTCO. COM.>> THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NOW STRIKING A DEAL WITH OPENAI TO USE ITS AI MODELS. THE COMPANY STEPPING IN AFTER THE PRESIDENT ORDERED THE GOVERNMENT TO STOP USING ANTHROPIC, THEIR MAIN COMPETITOR, DEIRDRE BOSA SAYS LIVE OUTSIDE OF ANTHROPIC'S HEADQUARTERS IN SAN FRANCISCO. FOR TODAY'S TECH CHECK.MORNING, DE. >> HEY, GOOD MORNING CARL. >> SO THERE.>> ARE FRESH CHALK MESSAGES OF SUPPORT OUT ON THE SIDEWALK HERE AND IN FRONT OF OPENAI HEADQUARTERS. THAT IS NEW BECAUSE THE STO ...
Empathy, Education, and the Future of Learning | Kim Ferguson | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:14
The year was 1995. I was 14 years old. Nelson Mandela had just been elected as the first democratically elected president of South Africa after 30 years of imprisonment for his fight for freedom. As a South African by descent, I was proud and relieved. At the same time, in my home country of Malawi, we had gone through a series of protests to establish a multi-party system of government after 30 years of dictatorship. It was a time of hope. Perhaps equally importantly, the South African national rugby team ...
Finding Voice Through Art | Joey Piergiovanni | TEDxEastchester School District
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:14
I'd like to start my talk today with a story. A story about a little library in a cramped daycare classroom. I remember walking into that daycare classroom, actually carrying the bookshelf of the library, which was way too wide to fit in the door frame.But what was more important about this story than just the bookshelf or the kids reading it was the fact that my arms weren't sore and I was able to put the bookshelf down in the corner and the kids ran right up to it after bumbling the thank yous that their ...