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Doing a TED talks clone at my school. What do you think of our student speakers?

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Posted on: November 12, 2008 10:43 AM, by David Ng

Not sure if you remember a previous mention on this, but I'm one of the folks involved in a new student conference initiative at UBC. Christianed "Terrytalks", this is basically a clone of the TED talks, where we'll offer the chance for students to share their globally relevant passions and desires to a large audience (about 400 this time around) of their peers, students, faculty and staff.

Anyway, I just made this quick promo video to highlight our student speakers. Would be great to get some feedback on the video in general (I'm generally new to video editing stuff). Would be even better if anyone can help figure out what song Idette is referring to (this will make more sense if you watch the video).