Theme: Big Bold World

We live in complex times – globalisation is changing our perspective of identity, safety, relationships, and life in general. How do we embrace this shifting environment, and what role do we play in its evolution? How do we find solutions to the challenges we face or do we simply embrace the benefits of an ever-connected world that is simultaneously bringing us together and pushing us apart. Some of us might (re)connect the dots to find their own path, while others freely navigate the world – the question is, how can we build towards a shared solution.

The British School in the Netherlands
Jan van Hooflaan 3
Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, 2252BG
Netherlands

Alex Gavriliu

Alex is a self-proclaimed gamer! He loves the opportunity to achieve new goals and work towards greater challenges. He’s learnt that gaming mirrors life: when we achieve we’re motivated to continue achieving.

Alys Sheahan

Alys is a talented musician who writes and performs her own original music.

Austin White

Austin White is a talented musician who writes and performs his own original music that is inspired from his life and his friends.

BSN Drama Group

Students from the British School in the Netherlands perform a self-written drama piece.

BSN Rock Band The Black Tees

The Black Tees are a rock band that performs various covers of classic and modern music, and also writes their own music.

BSN Senior Gymnastics Team

The Senior Gymnastics Team at the British School in the Netherlands.

Cole Webber

By the age of 14, Cole was already guest lecturing at universities about his ideas on education advancement and the structures needed to support it. This early success was the result of a contest he won that was sponsored by the Association for Learning Environments and which encouraged students to build a hypothetical school of the future. Cole provided ideas and building designs on how schools could improve learning for the individual. These plans were later submitted for funding and he liaised with the Canadian government through this process.

Hashim Syed

Hashim has been studying at The University of York, where he is majoring in philosophy, politics and economics. He has also taken on as the lead of a non-profit social impact group, York Community Consulting. It comes as no surprise why he might be drawn to leadership, but Hashim explains that, actually, his awareness of the effects of leadership stem from much earlier in his life. Through his strong ties to his Pakistani roots and from his time growing up in London and The Hague, he says that he has seen the power leaders have on change and he hopes to use this understanding to affect positive change in all of his leadership roles.

Ingrid Randazzo

Ingrid has spent the first ten years of her life living in the UK, Netherlands, Italy and Germany and speaks all of the countries' languages. The stories Ingrid learnt from her grandmother - who survived WWII - inspired her talk for TEDxYouth@BSN.

Ioan Popescu

Ioan enjoys playing video games, building models and helping people. He is really looking forward to telling the TEDxYouth@BSN audience his beliefs about modern advertising and its deceptive qualities.

James Topping

James is a self-taught musician, who enjoys learning new music in his spare time.

Maddison Dawn

Maddison believes in being who you are, not what someone else wants you to be. She loves swimming, fighting against injustice and spending time with friends.

Manya Gupta

Manya believes in seizing the opportunities that arise. She has learnt from her parents that you can be whoever you want to be, but you have to take chances and work hard to achieve your dreams. Manya understands that it doesn’t matter who were are born – only who we become.

Megan Crowl

Megan loves being part of other worlds, delving into new adventures and becoming completely immersed in a story. She loves reading and writing and believes that both things help create healthier minds in this busy and chaotic life.

Mindy Howard

Mindy is the Founder and Director of Inner Space Training, a Netherlands-based company that develops and delivers training for commercial astronauts to help them with psychological acclimation to the different flight phases. She has also been on NASA’s Highly Qualified Candidate’s List for their astronaut programme.

Nick van Breda

Nick van Breda went from being a gaming addict to becoming a change maker. Five years after quitting online games, he realised that how he was making an impact was learned through the ten years of his game addiction, and putting that into action in the real world.

Pragnya Vankamamidi

Pragnya is nine years old and is a voracious reader – especially Harry Potter books. She loves to read stories and tell them herself, with the hopes of one day writing her own book(s).

Rowan McCabe

Rowan is a performance poet from Newcastle. As the world's first door-to-door poet, he travels throughout England knocking on people's doors to break down barriers and learn more about his fellow neighbours.

Sahrid Kancherla

In 2017, Sahrid began attending school at the BSN and loves the Netherlands because it has so much open space! He has a unique perspective on culture and identity and wants to share it with others.

Tobias Wever

Ever stopped yourself from doing something because you were scared? We all have. But Tobias doesn’t believe this is a good enough reason – we miss out on so much by closing ourselves to change. Tobias thinks that we should face things head-on; go on, try it! You might enjoy it!

Voke Akati-Udi

Voke Akati-Udi is currently in Year 12 and studying History, English, Maths and French. A staunch feminist and an active member of the global community, she is passionate about the things she believes in. Her hobbies include reading and acting.

Wendy Mensink

Wendy Mensink knew at the age of 8 that she had a passion for space travel after she first visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. After finishing school at ArtEZ, Academy of the Arts, she found her love for space did not waver. She knew that in order to be truly happy with her work she needed to find her own place in space. And so she did. She is now a graphic designer for various space-related companies, among others the European Space Agency, and as co-founder of Viridian Raven –an application that makes early intervention for global forest management possible by using Earth observation data from satellites- Wendy has indeed made her way into space –in her own way.

William Bourne

William loves technology and the way it can make things happen. But he also believes that it’s important that we think about where our products come from and how they affect others – that’s why he believes in ethical tech and the importance of making considered choices we can stand by.