Theme: What If?

What if?

The purpose of this TEDx talk is to encourage the youth to dream so that progress can be achieved not by conforming to how things are but by imagining how they could be. The event will delve into the topics related to the power of imagination in progress. It will bring together inspiring, motivational speakers with empowering stories to celebrate innovation, passion, and the transformative power of creative ideas. In addition, the speakers will embrace the limitless possibilities of "What If" and shape a future where dreams are the catalysts for change.

TEDxYouth@TbilisiGreenSchool
Evgeni Mikeladze St, Tbilisi 0159, Georgia
Tbilisi, Imeret'i, 0159
Georgia

Alexander Arabadzhiev

Student

Alexander 18, is currently embarking on a FLEX Abroad gap year at Buckswood International School Tbilisi, immersing himself in the cultural fabric of Georgia. A native of Boston United States, Outside of academics Alexander is known for his linguistic versatility, passion for travel, and love of both basketball and golf. He will attend Columbia University next year studying economics.

Ana Chkhitunidze

Student

Ana is a 14-year-old girl in the ninth grade at Tbilisi green School. She is a member of a debate club. Her hobbies are dancing, listening to music, walking, reading books, traveling, painting, and learning foreign languages. Since childhood, Ana has been interested in art, especially abstract works, and she likes to draw abstract pictures herself. Ana wants to become a psychologist. She wants to help people and make life easier. At the same time she would like her life to be as diverse as the art itself.

Ana Shubladze

Student

Ana is a 16-year-old student from Georgia. She has discovered a passion for Physics and Math at an early age. Ana studies at Buckswood International School - Tbilisi, and she would like to continue her education abroad. She hopes that she will use her knowledge rationally back in Georgia.

Ana-Maria Razmadze

Student

Ana-Maria is 17 years old. She lives in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, and is enrolled at Buckswood International School-Tbilisi. She is planning to pursue her education further in Europe, come back to her homeland, and help develop and change her country with the knowledge she will hopefully gain abroad.

Barbare Ebanoidze

Student

Barbare is a 14-year-old student at Tbilisi Green School. She enjoys spending her time listening to music, spending time with her friends, or reading. She wants people from all around the world to embrace diversity and begin to express their individuality more. Barbare believes in the important role art plays in our lives and that it allows us to make a difference. She also believes that creativity is beautiful and art allows us to dream. She hopes that one day, more people will interact with art to change the world.

Daviti Odishvili

Student

Daviti, a 16-year-old resident of Tbilisi, Georgia, finds joy in the melodies of music, the intricacies of piano keys, the narratives of movies, and the adventures of global travel. Driven by a defined career path, he eagerly anticipates his professional journey. His resonating quote, "With patience and prudence, forgive others," reflects his belief in forgiveness and understanding.

Demetre Chankvetadze

Student

Demetre Chankvetadze is a 15-year-old student, born and brought up in Georgia, pursuing education at Green School Didi Dighomi. He enjoys playing and watching football. Demetre’s main goal is to become a businessman and make his country more famous for everyone to experience the beauty of Georgia.

Ekaterine Iluridze

Student

Ekaterine is an excellent student and always does her work at a high academic level. She is bright in all school subjects and always tries her best. Ekaterine is a motivated and self-confident person who sets big goals and goes for them step by step.

Elene Bedianidze

Student

Elene is a 16-year-old student, who studies at Buckswood International School - Tbilisi. Her entire life she has lived in Georgia with a dream to one day study abroad. Elene hopes to come back and share everything she learns with her family and friends.

Elizabed Gabechava

Student

Elizabed is a 15-year-old student, who is in the 10th grade at Tbilisi Green School. Being an extroverted and caring person, she loves making people happy and encouraging them to reach their goal. For Elizabed, lack of empathy in individuals is a huge problem that needs to be solved. She strongly believes that everyone should be understood properly and that conflicts should be resolved.

Guram Zedgenidze

Student

Guram is a good student and always shows self-confidence in class. He enjoys learning foreign languages and mostly feels confident in English. He likes playing video games and greatly enjoys hanging out with friends. Guram believes in his bright future.

Gurami Lekishvili

Student

Gurami is a 15-year-old student at Tbilisi Green School. He’s a passionate student with the love of history and science. Gurami has a lot of hobbies; for example, in his free time he plays basketball and also plays the bass guitar. He hopes to have the opportunity to study in the best universities possible to be a successful person and take good care of people around him.

Ia Mirijanashvili

Student

Ia is a 14-year-old student who loves art and music. She studies at Tbilisi Green School. She has always loved music and gained a lot of knowledge in art and music from her guardians. She grew to become an ambitious young woman with a spectrum of interests and goals in her life. She has always enjoyed debates and discussions, felt some sort of an urge to express her opinions about the world around her, and tried multiple hobbies.

Kesaria Dekanoidze

Student

Kesaria Dekanoidze is 16 years old and has been attending Tbilisi Green School since the 8th grade. She is a passionate and energetic person and likes to share her thoughts and ideas with the world. Despite the demands of high school life, one of her favorite ways to unwind and enjoy herself is listening to music and believes in its transformative power and its influence not only on individuals, but on entire communities.

Kesaria Tatarashvili

Student

Keso, a 14-year-old student from Tbilisi, Georgia, thrives in the vibrant atmosphere of Green School Saburtalo, currently navigating the challenges of the 9th grade. Passionate about swimming and volleyball, she finds solace and clarity in the water. Keso is interested in the critical issue of teenage mental health, pondering the potential impact if parents prioritized their children's well-being. Believing this topic resonates deeply with her peers, Keso aims to shed light on the importance of addressing mental health challenges among teenagers.

Ketevani Kilasonia

Student

Her name is Ketevani Kilasonia. She was born in 2008, September 22. She enjoys drawing since the very young age. She draws portraits and creates abstract art. She spends her free time writing stories in a hope she will write a novel some day. Ketevani loves playing volleyball with her friends. Volleyball helps her to release her stress. She tries to be better version of herself every day.

Levan Peikrishvili

Student

Levan is a 16-year-old student from Georgia. He grew up in the capital - Tbilisi. His development as a person is deeply connected to the school he goes to - Buckswood. As the school years are coming to an end, he hopes that the future is full of fun experiences, which encourages him to be the best of him.

Lizi Dzhodzhua

Student

Lizi Dzhodzhua is a 17-year-old student from Georgia. She is interested in debates, public speaking and always works on herself and her skills. Her message is a call to action, particularly directed at the youth, urging them to dream fearlessly and challenge conventions.

Lizi Lezhava

Student

Lizi Lezhava is a 16-year-old student who has been attending Tbilisi Green School for the past 11 years. She is an eccentric individual, who highly enjoys both rigid yet expansive realm of science as well as exploration of limitless imagination.

Lizi Tetrashvili

Student

Lizi Tetrashvil is a 16-year-old student, who has been learning at Tbilisi Green School since the first grade. She is a creative soul with an eye for fashion and a heart for music. Her interests reflect her unique sense of self-expression. Beyond earthly pursuits, she's captivated by the secrets of the universe, delving into the mysteries of the cosmos with an insatiable passion. In her world, the intersection of fashion, music, and the unknown creates a tapestry of curiosity and creativity.

Luka Gigauri

Student

Luka is 14 years old. He lives in Georgia, Tbilisi. Luka studies at Green School Didi Dighomi. In his free time, he likes playing football with his friends. He’s interested in Computer Science and Technology. He also studies about computers in free time. He was a two-time champion in karate and he had been a dancer for eight years. He has one brother and a parrot. His favorite subjects are Math and English. For him these subjects are pretty interesting and challenging. Luka wants to become a successful person.

Magda Kurtsadze

Student

Magda is a 14-year-old girl, who lives in Georgia. She studies at Green School Didi Dighomi in the ninth grade. Magda loves hanging out with friends and family and she loves painting, reading and watching films. Her goal is to be a successful architect one day.

Mariam Karosanidze

Student

Mariam Karosanidze is a 15-year-old 10th grade student, who studies at Green School Didi Dighomi. She has been learning English for almost 10 years. She has 4 TOEFL certificates and is doing her best to improve her English skills. She loves speaking English with other people or the ones she meets online. She also knows German, Russian and Spanish. Her hobbies are painting, listening to music, watching horror movies and hanging out with her friends. Her goals are to learn new languages and become an international technologist.

Mariam Khachapuridze

Students

Mariam is a 15-year-old student, who lives in Georgia. Mariam is a 10 th grade student at Green School Didi Dighomi. She likes reading romantic books. Music is an integral part of her life. Her hobby is playing volleyball. She wants to become an IT specialist and, if she has time for sports, a professional volleyball player.

Mariam Maisuradze

Student

Mariam Maisuradze is a 16-year-old student at Tbilisi Green School with a keen interest in the human mind. She enjoys sharing her thoughts and learning from each challenge for personal growth. Mariam is actively involved in formal debates, which improved her critical thinking and communication skills. Her way of expressing emotions is graphic design. Mariam's enthusiasm for self-discovery and eagerness to engage with others make her desire to help people see how important it is to love themselves.

Mariami Kvikvinia

Student

Mariami is a 15-year-old student at Tbilisi Green School. Mariami loves music, art and literature. As an artistic person, she enjoys beauty and diversity in culture. She dreams of becoming a great connoisseur of world culture and the beauty it hides. She believes in the transformative power of creativity for human progress.

Natalie Paghava

Student

Natalie Paghava is a 14-year-old student. She is in the 9th grade at Tbilisi Green School. She loves reading and hanging out with friends. Behind her back, she has years of performing leading roles and solo dances on stage. Natalie's main interests now are psychology and human behaviour. The main idea of her speech is how we can use the privileges of our mind, take action, and change the lives of most of the students for the better.

Natia Tsetskhladze

Student

Natia Tsetskhladze is a 14-year-old student at Tbilisi Green School. She is nice, outgoing and above all, a perfectionist who always tries to push herself to do her best. She has recently joined the Green School debate team, because she is very passionate about public speaking. She has always loved it and is excited to have as many meaningful experiences in the field as she can. She is also interested in foreign languages and human psychology. In the future, she hopes to build a successful career that she can be proud of.

Natia Tsotskolauri

Student

Natia is a 14-year-old student born and raised in Georgia, Tbilisi. She has been pursuing education at Green School Didi Dighomi. She studies hard because she believes that education is the key to success. She enjoys painting and reading books, listening to music and watching different genres of movies.

Nia Janjghava

Student

Nia is a 14-year-old Georgian student, who since birth has been living in Tbilisi, Georgia. She has studied at Buckswood International School – Tbilisi since the first grade. She loves trying out fresh experiences and exploring new interests.

Nikoloz Kvaratskhelia

Student

Nikoloz, a 16-year-old student at Green School Saburtalo, aspires to be more progressive. He is passionate about discussing various topics, particularly enjoying critical and logical thinking.

Nino Gviniashvili

Student

Nino is a 15-year-old student from Tbilisi, Georgia. Beyond her studies, she enjoys spending time with friends, taking walks, and occasionally she likes to paint. Nino believes that imagination is often undervalued in our lives.

Nutsa Giorgadze

Student

Nutsa, a 15-year-old student at the Green School Saburtalo in Georgia, is passionate about basketball and envisions a future where women's basketball in her country thrives. She shares her personal journey in a TED Talk, exploring the mental impacts of an athlete's injury and revealing the strength she found in vulnerability and the power discovered through moments of weakness.

Nutsa Tcheishvili

Student

Nutsa is a 16-year-old student from Tbilisi Green School. She has a lot of hobbies such as ice skating, skiing, reading, etc. Her passion is to share her ideas with her friends and the society.

Saba Sanodze

Student

Saba is a 15-year-old motivated, creative student with a good sense of humor. Saba studies at Tbilisi Green School. He loves to share his views about topics important for him such as the power of imagination and how it can be used in today’s science and technology.

Sopia-Maria Tsiskarauli

Student

Sophia is a reserved and dynamic individual with a wide range of interests. Her maturity and commitment to exceeding her own limits shines through, complemented by qualities such as honesty, loyalty, bravery and kindness.

Tamar Parulava

Student

Tamar is a 15-year-old student, who has spent her whole life in Georgia, receiving education at Green School Didi Dighomi. Tamar enjoys discovering new things and always tries to challenge herself to try something new and attempts to overcome the new obstacles.

Tornike Shetekauri

Student

Tornike Shetekauri is a ninth-grader in Tbilisi Green School. He strives to better himself as a speaker because he believes that one of the main skills that is necessary for growth is the ability to speak and convey information. He enjoys skiing in the mountains, writing, editing, reviewing code and disassembling electronics to better understand and learn as to how they work.