TEDxLGHS will host diverse speakers and community bonding

On March 23, 2019, the fifth annual TEDxLGHS will be hosted in the Prentiss Brown Auditorium at Los Gatos High School from 2-5PM. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, will focus around the theme Explore. Speakers include students, teachers and community members, such as Art Norins, Jason Minsky, Chris Ernst, David Homa, and Kris Orre.

TEDxLosGatosHighSchool is an entirely student-run event, coordinated by students who are part of the school's peer to peer program U.P. (Unconditionally Positive).

For more information about TEDxLosGatosHighSchool, please visit www.tedxlghs.com. Tickets can be purchased on the website for $15 or at the door for $20. Included in the ticket price is access to all TEDx talks, food (including alternatives for dietary needs), community-bonding activities, and student and local business vendors.

Launched in 2009, TEDx is a program of locally organized events that bring individual communities together to share the TED experience. Many well-received TEDx talks from local events are featured on TED.com, to be viewed by millions of people across the world.

TEDxLosGatosHighSchool is an entirely student-run event, coordinated by students who are part of the school's peer to peer program U.P. (Unconditionally Positive). This is the fifth consecutive year these students will bring the event to the Los Gatos community, and they are excited to host an event that will be even more impactful than the last.

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Monica Lewinsky, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a "wish," or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

Email info@tedxlghs.com with any specific questions pertaining to the event.