TEDxTomball-ED 2017 General Speaker Submission

Teachers, Professors, Faculty, Administrators & Students!

The TEDxTomball-ED Team is looking for fresh new ideas and would love for you to submit one of yours!  We’re not just looking for talks, we want your best stories, songs, poems and performances…anything you can deliver with passion on stage.

The TED Commandments: These 10 tips are the heart of a great TEDTalk

1. Dream big! Strive to create the best talk you have ever given. Reveal something never seen before. Do something the audience will remember forever. Share an idea that could change the world.
2. Show us the real you. Share your passions, your dreams … and also your fears. Be vulnerable. Speak of failure as well as success.
3. Make the complex plain. Don’t try to dazzle intellectually. Don’t speak in abstractions. Explain! Give examples. Tell stories. Be specific.
4. Connect with people’s emotions. Make us laugh! Make us cry!
5. Don’t flaunt your ego. Don’t boast. It’s the surest way to switch everyone off.
6. No selling from the stage! Unless we have specifically asked you to, do not talk about your company or organization. And don’t even think about pitching your products or services or asking for funding from stage.
7. Feel free to comment on other speakers, to praise or to criticize. Controversy energizes! Enthusiastic endorsement is powerful!
8. If possible, don’t read your talk. Notes are fine. But if the choice is between reading or rambling, then read!
9. You must end your talk on time. Doing otherwise is to steal time from the people that follow you. We won’t allow it.
10. Rehearse your talk in front of a trusted friend…for timing, for clarity, for impact.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Thursday, October 19, 2017 AT 5:00 PM CST.

Name (First, Last)(required)

Email Address(required)

Phone Number:(required)

Company/Organization:(required)

Job Title/Position:(required)

Proposed Talk Title:(required)

Brief description of your proposed TEDxTomball-ED Talk:(required)

Video Link (Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and insert the link here. A short 60-90 second video introducing yourself and your topic. Here we are looking for passion, not production value!)(required)

Provide a brief description of your background/experience/credentials:(required)

Provide us with any additional information you would like us to know:

Submit

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Speaking at TEDxTomball-Ed: The Guidelines

Please click below to read about the TEDx Guidelines in more detail: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedxcontentguidelines.pdf

• Talks range from 3 to 18 minutes in length
• We do not pay speakers
• No keynotes
• No panel discussion
• No Q&A
• No podiums
• No selling from the stage
• No political agendas
• No religious proselytizing (including new age beliefs)
• Only good science

If you have any difficulties uploading your video, email us at tccote@lonestar.edu.