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Southside High students deliver third annual TED Ed evening with personal talks on resilience, identity and opportunity
Summary
Southside High School hosted its third annual TED Ed evening featuring nine student and faculty talks on topics including mental health, immigration, disability, cultural identity and career paths. Presenters credited school faculty and community hosts and emphasized resilience, mentorship and finding belonging.
Southside High School hosted its third annual TED Ed evening, where students and faculty presented a series of personal talks on resilience, identity, belonging and opportunity.
The program opened with advisers Christine Brown and Nicole Noor thanking school and district staff for supporting the TED Ed Club and naming Mark Palminteri, Lauren Reed, Rob Lichter, Mel Lopez, the Video Club, Dr. Russ Demben and Anthony Capuccio for technical and speaker support. The night featured nine talks by students and one by chemistry teacher Herb Weiss, each framed as short, personal TED-style presentations.
Connor Stack, a Southside High student, described finding community and balance through Dungeons & Dragons after struggling in his early high-school years. "You need to balance your life. You can let your imagination run wild, but you have to balance how you work with that," he said, recounting how joining theater, video club and other activities helped him improve academically…
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