In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

1 Hau Yuen Path
Braemar Hill
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Allyson Ye

Avid learner

In her talk, Allyson connects architectural composition with personal well-being and explores the hidden ways that urban surroundings shape people, a rather niche topic that she nevertheless finds fascinating. Allyson is a local art enthusiast with a keen eye for detail who currently attends HK's Chinese International School in year 11. She cares deeply about social impact, and continually emphasizes that impact-making is diverse, varied, and sometimes invisible to the naked eye. Through her talk, she would like to sharpen the minds of her audience to the unseen effects that impress upon everyday life, for these are the ones that often are the most transformative.

Amy Shin

Student at the Chinese International School

Amy shares with us her personal insight into the definition of 'vulnerability' and identifies the often misleading factors that drive us to create a facade over our own skin, and ultimately touches upon what it takes to find solace with yourself. As someone who has a strong passion for both the written and spoken word, specifically through poetry, she highlights the journey that she took to shape her voice and explain what it takes to do so. Poetry has been a form of comfort that enabled her to shift her point of view on vulnerability and instead, use it as an advantage to explore the dimensions of her identity. Later on, she sought to employ poetry to try to weave together the tapestry of her community at CIS by listening to not only her own story but also of others and continues to spread her joy for the written and spoken word with those around her.

Angela Oldenziel

Student at the Chinese International School

Angela is currently a Year 12 student at Chinese International School.

Grace Ma

Student at the Chinese International School

Grace Ma reflects on her journey from initially perceiving the LGBT+ community as already well-accepted by society to understanding the struggles that this community is still currently facing. She shares her opinions on how activists and supporters of the LGBT+ community could continue the progression of the LGBT+ movement and increase acceptance throughout the globe. Grace is a member of the school's Gender and Sexuality Alliance and has participated in the Hong Kong Pride Parade. She is a strong believer of equality and human rights.

Grace Xi Cheng Lee

Student at the Chinese International School

Based on the book “The Botany of Desire”, Grace Lee talks about the brief concept of domestication in the past 100 years or so. As the higher life form that we are, humans generally believe that we stand above all other species on the planet, domestication as the most primal evidence of our dominance. However, we may have been drastically mistaken on the topic of agriculture, years of planting crops in orderly rows, gardens lined with small pots, we have really provided the perfect environment for the plants to thrive. Grace share how apples, a species of plant that have become universally beloved and evolved to exist in longevity, some methods sometimes less the puritan methods. Domestication has essentially become the alternative and artificial survival method as a result of human’s intervening.

Melle Hsing

Student at the Chinese International School HK

After observing her sense of touch for a year and delving into the world of neuroscience, Melle Hsing brings insight into the often unnoticed importance of touch in our everyday lives, and how we can utilise our sense of touch to understand our mood, body, and the messages it is trying to tell us. She guides us through a short activity that would help us connect to our sense of touch everyday, and emphasises how this is essential during the current global COVID-19 pandemic.

Will Menarndt

Secondary English Teacher

I am an English teacher and a writer.