YI-CHEN TU

Artist, Blogger, Student, Writer/Editor

I learned about TED talk in my English class. I began to listen to TED talks to increase my listening ability. However, the takeaways from the talks fascinated me.. From then on, I have continued to listen to TED and TEDx talks. One year ago, I joined TEDxNTNU. After one year of training and experiences of working in a TEDx organization team, I decided to organize a TEDx event. It is exciting to me to hold an annual event of TEDxNTNU by ourselves, listening to others’ life stories is such an interesting thing, with a year of training and preparatory experience, I firmly believe that I can also hold a TEDx talk in the future and continue to inherit it. For this year, I will hold the annual event with eight speakers, topic is “Future Talk”, Future may really hard to talk about it, so how? We are all college students and want to ask the same question, too. To continue our tradition, in addition to maintaining the concept of TED "ideas worth spreading", I also hope that we will promote good ideas and successfully raise more preparatory funds for the team, so that more people in other industries can know us and support us to hold annual meetings. No matter what the current situation is, we will try our best to complete this mission and continue to inherit high-quality activities!

I have a strong passion for Art. Because of my family, I have lots of chances to get in touch with it. Since my childhood, I have visited many exhibitions with my family, which made cause me decide to work on arts as a career. But as I learned about some trends of the future, I thought to combine them with Art and my life, so the idea of the event occurred to me, that’s “Future Talk”.

“The Dream of Educating Afghan Girls Lives On” at TED woman December 2021 This is my favourite TED talk because it discusses the issue of “women's rights”. The speaker founded the COLA school for girls’ education in Afghan, where serious discrimination against women occurs. In this TED talk, the leader tells their true stories, the way of operation, how to keep calling to action on women's education, and to always be prepared for the changing situation, etc. In just 18 minutes, I learned about the changing situation abroad and paid more attention to the issue of women's rights. “That is such a touching story”, I sighed. Education belongs to everyone, beyond gender. Without the speaker, we’ll not know how hard the situation is. Thanks to COLA for protecting women’s rights in education.

Before joining an TEDx organization team, I had always listened to TEDx talks on TEDx official YouTube channel or TED Podcast. Last year, I joined TEDxNTNU as the head of the design department. Everything was fresh to me there. Following the organizers’ instructions, I could clearly know my work, it included creative ideas and poster design, programme layout, venue decoration, product design, etc. What I learned in TEDxNTNU is precious and never from textbooks, increasing practical skills has become such an important part of my life. Moreover, the great memories and friends I got here are the best rewards. With a burning passion, I became the next organizer of TEDxNTNU, which is my pleasure.