My name is Tejas Narayanan and I am a junior chemical engineering student at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In April 2022, I attended my first TEDx event and was blown away by what I learned and found out that lectures given in school auditoriums can be thrilling! After the event, I started thinking about how I might bring a TEDx event focused on my passion for climate action to my community. One thing led to another, and I’m now one of TEDxSanAntonio’s organizers and part of the effort to create Earth2Hot2Handle: A Climate Action Event. We’ve booked the fantastic Buena Vista theatre on UTSA’s beautiful downtown campus on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Please come and join us!
The climate crisis is the single most important issue my generation faces, and we must solve it. There is simply no choice. I’m gathering my friends and colleagues, fellow students, professionals, industry analysts, and scientists to explore:
- What is being done about the climate crisis, in the US and elsewhere?
- What are energy companies doing?
- What are our government officials doing?
- What can the ordinary person do to combat climate change?
- What careers exist that can drive climate action forward?
I’m trying my best to do what I can with what I know and events like these will help me, and anyone who can attend, learn more. My fellow student organizers and I are working hard to make a difference in climate action. If we all work together, we will make the difference.
Get Involved in TEDxYouth@SanAntonio
The TEDxYouth@SanAntonio program operates under license from TED.com — the people who put out TED talks and TED conferences. In the Youth program, people middle-school age and up are invited to organize the event — the venue, catering, speakers and programming, publicity and communications, sponsorships and fundraising. The TEDxSanAntonio organizers are actively involved as mentors. There are four ways you can become part of the team:
- Attend. Register for the event — we’ve worked hard to make it FREE to attend.
- Speak. If you’ve got an idea worth spreading for solving the climate crisis, or making progress on the issue — please apply. We are accepting speaking and performance proposals through January 2023.
- Sponsor. We welcome organizations who support students, education, climate action initiatives, and energy industry transformation to help us put on this and other events. We’re standing up an interactive Idea Lab where organizations can interact directly with participants.
- Volunteer. Want to learn how to produce a community event? This is a great opportunity to learn how it’s done, and meet some fascinating people.
Read more about the event, get involved. And I hope you’ll reach out in social media to learn more about us and cheer us on.
