Day in A Future School!

Having the world as diverse and dynamic as it is now, and technology and science advancement in it’s fastest pace – we have no idea what the most popular future professions will look like. No one also knows what skills and knowledge people will need in 15 or 20 years from now.

To be able to live in such world people also need diverse skills and creative abilities to make best of it. Shouldn’t primary education be the first step to acquire those skills?

TEDxKids@Vilnius was a demo of the school day in the future: day when school is fun and engaging, when children ask questions, when they are entrepreneurs, when they are hackers and creators of the world around them.

While 300 adults was treated to an overwhelming all-day TEDx program of leading thinkers, innovators and education experts from all over the world, 50 kids (6 to 12 year old) will dive deep into a rich mix of workshops encouraging them to play, be creative and discover their talent in the most unexpected ways.

Šiltadaržio gatvė 6
Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, LT-01124
Lithuania

Gever Tulley

Gever Tulley is the founder of Tinkering School, an internationally known summer program for children. He is also the founder of SF Brightworks, an innovative K-12 school in San Francisco that emphasizes experience-based, hands-on, experiential learning. As Gever notes: “I have made it my mission to re-introduce the world to children: the real world as revealed through unscripted, hands-on, meaningful learning experiences.“ Gever is an author of the book Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do), the TED book Dangerism!, and the children's book The Little Girl Who Sneezed.

Peter Madsen

Peter Madsen is an explorer, who excels in making fantastic dreams come true. He fervently hopes to go where no one has gone before and explore unknown worlds. In 2001, he constructed the first self-built submarine in Denmark, and for the next eight years he led submerged expeditions in three self-built submarines. The last and most advanced, Nautilus, is the world's largest amateur-built submarine. Nautilus is roughly half the size of the Danish naval submarines until 2005. Submersible vessels made Peters name widely known, but he didn't stop there. In 2008 Peter, along with Kristian von Bengtson, started a new project, leading to the building of the world's first self-built spaceship. Peter is now full time working on a new and improved version of the rocket, that ultimately will send a small capsule, carrying Peter himself, into space. It all takes place in Rocket Madsen Space Lab on Refshaleøen, in the middle of Copenhagen.

Ritik Mehta

Ritik Mehta is 14 - year old who started his fascination with 3D printing back in 2011 at TEDxKids@Brussels. This fascination led him from mastering the technology to understanding its potential and from educating his peers to helping the needy. Since then Ritik helped organise the last 4 editions of TEDxYouth@Flanders and also spoke at one. Besides being active in the 3D printing community and expressing his thoughts on the future of his generation, Ritik helps with Eyes for the World, a charity that brings eye care to needy children in Africa and Asia. He started a commercial venture to sell 3D printed eyewear to fund his ideas for Eyes for the World of 3D printed glasses for the needy. As Forbes stated: "Not many people his age can claim an association with a technology as emergent as 3D printing, a non-profit organization, and the phenomenal TEDx, all at once.”

Rodrigo Viterbo

Rodrigo Viterbo, his wife Terese Deduraite, also known as The Walkabout Family, are interested in how the experience of arts and entrepreneurship can influence kids to make better choices for their lives, with the Family values always present. How can we help the others grow and transform themselves like they did? This is what drives this family each day!

Simas Janulis

Simas Janulis is an educator, focusing on creativity and fun side of science. While studying physics he started to harness non academical part of science. First he started to perform physics show, then was involved in a lot of science popularising events, festivals and projects. After studies together with friends he co-founded NGO “Mokslas ir Menas” (Science and Art) where idea was to bring together people from different creative fields to learn, create, disseminate and educate together.

TEDxKids@Vilnius 2015

Having the world as diverse and dynamic as it is now, and technology and science advancement in it’s fastest pace – we have no idea what the most popular future professions will look like. No one also knows what skills and knowledge people will need in 15 or 20 years from now. To be able to live in such world people also need diverse skills and creative abilities to make best of it. Shouldn’t primary education be the first step to acquire those skills? TEDxKids@Vilnius was a demo of the school day in a deep or near future: day when school is fun and engaging, when children ask questions, when they are entrepreneurs, when they are hackers and creators of the world around them.