The Career Center presented Hood\u2019s very first TEDx event, TEDxHoodCollege, to a sold-out crowd in the Rosenstock Auditorium on April 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event, with the tagline \u201cleadership and change in the modern world,\u201d featured seven speakers who were selected from a pool of over 40 applicants. Each speaker had a maximum of 18 minutes to talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several of the speakers were current or former Hood students, including undergrad Lily Tanner, who is majoring in early childhood education. Tanner\u2019s talk, titled \u201cWater is a Weapon of Mass Destruction,\u201d included information about how contaminated water negatively impacts the lives of people all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ja\u2019Bette Lozupone, who has a bachelor\u2019s degree in communication arts and a doctorate in organizational leadership from Hood, spoke about transforming her life from teen mother to successful business owner in her talk, \u201cTranscending Wishful Thinking to Wishful Doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris Sparks, owner and \u201cgame overlord\u201d of Surelocked In Escape Games, spoke about how games and the power of playing unlock the best of what the future has to offer in his talk, \u201cThanks for Playing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other speakers included Stephanie Miller \u201911, with \u201cBroken Healers and Why They\u2019re Necessary,\u201d Adam Cubbage with \u201cAnswer the Call,\u201d current Hood grad student Jacob Abuhamada with \u201cMapping the Horizons of the Mind,\u201d and Joel Beidleman with \u201cThe Educational Pandemic of Poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lisa Littlefield, dean of career development and experiential education, hosted the event and spearheaded the planning process. Littlefield said that the TED organization granted the career center the license to put on the event before COVID and permitted an extension until it was safe to have the talks in-person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Littlefield helped develop a TEDx event while on staff at Georgia State University and brought the idea to Hood with her. She said that the TEDx event is a great opportunity to \u201cput a voice to great ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event reached full capacity, with 100 people registering for free tickets, reaching the max number of audience members allowed for a TEDx licensed event. The event was recorded by student and staff volunteers from the media department, to be later posted to the TEDx YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a Hood community effort to put on this event,\u201d Littlefield said. \u201cLike anything you do for the first time, it takes a village to put it on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"