Andrew Bieronski

Athlete, Business adviser, Business mentor, Educator/Teacher, Event planner, Idea generator, Startup, Student, Technologist, World traveler

Andrew Bieronski is a high school teacher in the Futures Forum Project at Huron Heights Secondary School in Kitchener, ON, which is part of the Waterloo Region District School Board. He is passionate about finding ways to leverage technology in the classroom to improve student learning and achievement. Andrew serves as an Educational Technology Mentor to startup companies that are part of the University of Waterloo's Velocity program and is the founder and director of TEDxKitchenerED.

My passions are people, education, technology, entrepreneurship, community building and happiness.

We've been saying for generations that education is the great equalizer but we have yet to reach equality. I think we'll finally come close to realizing that dream in the next 20-50 years with the emergence of affordable technology and internet access at the core of this shift.

Community building, Education, Educational Technology, Entrepeneurship Education and Development, Learning

I quickly fell in love with the TED talk format and their sharing through videos online. Like many people, the first I saw was Ken Robinson's famous talk 'Do Schools Kill Creativity.' As an educator I was hooked, and I've looked to TED for so much personal learning since. I've had the pleasure of founding and directing TEDxKitchenerED, which has gone through two very different events now. The first was quite small and hosted at the school I teach at. It came together very quickly and I'm very proud of it. The experience pushed me to dive deeper into TEDx, which led me to apply to and attend TEDActive in 2015 - this was a transformative experience for me as I learned a lot about TEDx and met many amazing people. I've taken that experience and looked to grow out TEDxKitchenerED since.