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Bridging Differences: Creating Lasting Social Change through Youth-led Street Sports

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
Simon Prahm is the co-founder and current managing director for GAME. Founded in 2003, GAME is a Danish-based Top 500 NGO headquartered in Copenhagen with 12 dedicated full time employees, 70 coaches and more than 100 volunteers. Using the ’sport-for-all’ approach its objective is to reach out to underprivileged youth, who have limited or no access to sport in order to strengthen the participants self-esteem, create social empowerment, and counteract marginalization. GAME has been running activities in Denmark since 2002 and started projects in the Middle East in 2007. Mr.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Free

A Queer Feminist in the Tech World: Leveraging Capital for Inclusive Sex Education in a White Man’s World

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Center for Careers & Internships, Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Andrea Barrica is a Filipina-American queer serial entrepreneur and activist. She co-founded inDinero, generating the company’s first $1M, a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups. She is a powerful force in the tech start up world and is the founder of O.School, a shame-free platform for female and gender diverse pleasure education.

(Private)

TEDxMiddlebury Student Speaker Competition

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
The TEDxMiddlebury Board is excited to announce this year’s event theme: “Lost and Found.” We invite all students to enter in the competition and share a four minute speech of a topic which they are passionate about, related to this year’s theme. A panel of faculty judges will elect the winner, who will give a full 18 minute presentation at the 2017 TEDxMiddlebury event. Refreshments will be served.

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public

TEDxMiddlebury 2017: Lost and Found

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
The theme of this year’s event, “Lost and Found,” is about the perpetual discovery and rediscovery that is essential to our existence as human beings. It questions what it means to feel lost and find purpose once again, be it in the formation of ourselves or the creation of our communities. It calls us to remember people, places, words, and histories we have left behind or taken for granted, but simultaneously invites us to reclaim, reshape, and reconstruct what we know. It makes space for both grief and joy, fate and intention, exile and belonging, context and abstraction.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$20/15/8
Open to the Public

Reflection Friday Series

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
Join the Innovation Hub and the TEDxMiddlebury board in the third Reflection Friday of the semester. Reflection Friday Series is a program hosted by the Innovation Hub in which speakers discuss the question: “What matters to me, and why.” During these lunchtime talks, students and other members of the Middlebury community will reflect on their own ‘story of self’ and discuss themes related to our core values: creativity, innovation, social enterprise, and experiential programs.

Free lunch, provided by Grapevine Grille, to the first 25 attendees

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public