Theme: Power of One - Be the Change

Irrespective of age, qualification, loaction, status or income, each one of us has something to offer, and more importantly, each one of us has the power to bring about change, in whatever manner or magnitude. But what is of paramount importance, is the realisation of this potential, and actualising it. We salute the spirit and passion that drives people to work towards a better future for their community and not just for themselves. TEDxYouth@BBS celebrates those who had the courage and intent to do something for the community.
The theme for TEDxYouth@BBS is "Power of One - Be the Change", about how an individual has the power to make change in the society. The speakers are change makers who have, in their manner/field, tried to make a change.

Bluebells School International
Bluebells School International
Kailash Colony
Delhi, Delhi, 110048
India

Aarnav Aggarwal

Activist

Aarnav founded UjjBhav in 2015 with the aim of fighting farmer suicides in Vidarbha District of Maharashtra. In UjjBhav’s mentorship program and peer to peer community, deprived farmers are connected with successful farmers and professionals in agriculture field to foster information sharing and community support. In this way, farmers are given support and access to free information to make optimal use of resources at hand. As agriculture is the primary economic sector and produces the most basic of human needs, he is committed to reinvent and address the core challenges in the sector through technology. He has been a part of numerous organisations that strive toward achieving the same goal through providing a ladder to farmers to rise.

Anugreh Sehtya

Co-Founder, Hybrid Idea

Anugreh co-founded Hybrid Idea - India's first assistive technology research and solution design company, supported by NITI AAYOG - with the vision to provide the necessary support to every person who needs assistance. He is a National Award Winner at IRIS National Fair 2016 and is a Padma Shri 2019 Nominee.

Ashish Ailawadi

Media, Commotion

Having done Master's in Philosophy at Hindu College, Ashish Ailawadi works at Commotion- an organisation that designs creative programs in schools and colleges to shape value systems of this generation. He strongly believes students can bring a change. Through his talk, he plans to talk about the power of control.

Chanda Parveen

Student

Chanda is a tenth grade student. She loves to write poems, and considers pen and paper to be her best friends as they are always ready to listen to her. She believes they have more love and patience than humans. Chanda writes because it gives her power to exist in the world. Writing is a weapon that does not demand blood.

Jyoti Chauhan

Student

Jyoti is a tenth grade student of Tkd Railway Colony G.G.S.S. School. She has been a part of Slam Out Loud for three years. Jyoti loves interacting with people, traveling and enjoys writing, reading and acting. Writing poetry makes her feel alive and helps her find peace in the crowded world when everything falls apart. Jyoti aspires to be a world renowned poet and an actress. She wants to open a school where students come from different backgrounds.

Kartikeya Uniyal

Student

Kartikeya is in the 12th grade at Navy Children School, Chanakyapuri, and has been working in the field of public education for the past 3 years. He felt that computer science, which is intended to be a practical subject has been transformed into a theoretical subject, losing significance. With this thought in mind, he founded Access to Information Technology, a digital literacy and safety initiative.He wishes to speak to students about creating and more importantly leading change both online and on field.

Naman Jethani

Student

Naman Jethani is a twelvth grade student in Bluebells School International, Kailash Colony, New Delhi. He is a passionate speedcuber and believes that speedcubing is a lesser known talent, but is super interesting. Naman holds two Limca National Records for solving the Pyraminx and previously held a National Record for the same.

Ravi Gulati

Activist

Ravi Gulati is a social activist who co-founded Manzil - an alternative school for the underpriviledged students and runs with the philosophy of every student being a teacher and every teacher being a student. A graduate from IIM-A, Ravi has given his life to transforming the education system by simply opening the doors of his home in Khan Market to learners. After transforming thousands of lives of people in Delhi, Ravi is now working with government school principals to enhance their capacity of work and effectiveness by facilitating their learning. At present, there are 250 children and youngsters in Manzil between seven and twenty-seven years of age who explore what they want to learn through multiple classes at various levels in English, mathematics, music, computers, painting, dance and theatre.

Rijul Kataria

Social Activist & Researcher

Rijul Kataria is currently a researcher and theater practitioner with the Yuva Ekta Foundation. Having completed Masters in Sociology in JNU, he has been designing Art-based programs for self-empowerment, social equity and sensitization.

Suneeta Mishra

Professor

Suneeta Mishra is an Assistant Professor in the Education Department of Institute of Home Economics, Delhi University. The present talk is based on her PhD research on the relationship between Grammatical Gender and Cognition, which was a comparative study of Hindi and Bangla.