Theme: Made in the Future

TEDxYouth@EB is an event for middle school students at Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, where live speakers and hands-on activities will encourage and inspire the students to envision the exciting possibilities of their world in 2035.

Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley
1009 Heinz Avenue
Berkeley, California, 94710
United States

Abbey Richter

Abbey Richter is the author of four, #1 national bestsellers on Amazon despite being only in the 6th grade! As an adopted child she sees her pets as family. She writes about these pets and other animals and all the adventures that they have.

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is CEO of 3D Robotics where they are rethinking what drones can REALLY do and founder of DIY Drones which is the largest community for amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. He’s the author of New York Times bestselling books, “The Long Tail” and “Free” as well as the new “Makers: The New Industrial Revolution.” From 2001 through 2012 he was the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Recent awards include Time Magazine’s Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds In Technology (2013) and Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers (2013).

Cody Levine

Cody Levine is a 6th-grade student who has been passionate about space since he could walk. Nothing gets him more pumped than talking about negative energy!

Emmett Stone

Emmett Stone, a college freshman at Western Michigan University, is working on a way that allows young people to measure their thinking preferences in a game-like format. While working as an intern at FourSight he took a research-based thinking assessment and gamified it in the virtual world of Minecraft. His creation, still under development, helps kids discover what kind of thinker they really are, and produces insights that might just change the way teachers educate and kids learn.

Jordan Cornet

Jordan Cornet is a 7th grader and deeply fascinated with other planets.

Nathalie Dubois-Stringfellow

Nathalie Dubois-Stringfellow is a scientist, inventor and program director at Sangamo BioSciences, a leading biotechnology company in the field of gene editing. She works on cures for what have been declared “incurable diseases”.

Noam Chocron

Noam is a 7th grader and advocate of tougher pollution standards.

Raquel Clydesdale

Raquel Clydesdale is an 11-year-old artist, musician, performer and athlete. She’s happiest when she can express herself through various performing and visual art forms.

Shiven Sankalia

8th-grader Shiven Sankalia is already a seasoned blogger. Several years ago, he started his blog on food and has never looked back. Shiven’s youthful perspective on his local restaurants have gained him international attention.

Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. His research, for which he has won many international awards, covers most aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning. His book “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” (co-authored with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in the field. He also works on nuclear weapons treaty verification, banning killer robots, and the long-term future of AI and the human race.

Teddy Lee

Theodore “Teddy” Lee is a 6th-grade student. He is a devotee of motorsport and all things relating to cars!