Free local TEDx event features 10 high school students

A TEDx event featuring 10 local high school student speakers is coming April 25 to the campus of Maumee Valley Country Day School. The free Freitag event is 5-8 p.m. and open to the public. Dinner will be provided.

This year’s co-organizers of TEDxMaumeeValleyCountryDaySchool​ are junior Layan Ridi and senior Daivik Patel.

“This event has become a large, impactful event where students and adults all come together to engage in discussions in a night of entertainment and education,” said Layan. Assisting the MV students is Dr. Dan Cohen, a member of the social studies faculty at Maumee Valley.

This year’s speakers will each give up to a 15-minute talk. All talks take place on the main stage of the school’s Millennium Theatre. The speakers, schools, and topics are:

• Marah Ariss, Perrysburg High School, 11th grade: “Special Needs Awareness”
• Alex Ban, Perrysburg High School, 10th grade: “The Troubled Teen Industry”
• Andy Caillaux, Maumee Valley Country Day School, 11th grade: “Lifting More than Weights”
• Adhya Duggal, William Mason High School, 11th grade: “Octopus: What We Can Learn from the Deep Sea Creature”
• Arsalan Failsal, St. John’s Jesuit, 11th grade: “How Stories Shape our Perception of Morality”
• David Liu, Sylvania Southview, 12th grade: “Seven Deadly Frames”
• Baraah Mansour, Maumee High School, 12th grade: “Surviving Life; Independence vs. Self Reliance”
• Medha Ramaswamy, Sylvania Southview, 11th grade: “A Pawn’s Journey”
• Mallory Rettig, Anthony Wayne High School, 12th grade: “More Than a Name”
• Urvi Viamajala, Sylvania Southview, 11th grade: “Turning Failure into Success”

More about the event can be found on Instagram (@TEDxMVCDS) and Twitter (@TEDxMVCDS). The event is sponsored by S&G Stores.