Community service: Alex Danilowicz at TEDxEncinitas

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Community service: Alex Danilowicz at TEDxEncinitas

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Alexander Danilowicz, 16, is the editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper, The Augustinian, at St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California. He is an award-winning public speaker and a recurring member on his high school's Principal's List. In 2010, he won the National District 41 Optimist Oratorical Contest. In 2013, he won first place at the regional level of the MD-4 Lions Club Student Speaker Contest. This summer Alexander went hiking with his father near Snæfellsjökull in Iceland and attended a journalism camp at Stanford University. Alexander also takes pride in speaking Spanish fluently. But, most of all, he enjoys playing board games with his dad and baking chocolate chip cookies with his mom.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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@MichaelMcRoskey 10 жыл бұрын

I love the quote at 0:34 "A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for." Great speech Alex!

@jamesconner7238 7 жыл бұрын

Why the Ontario School board distroyed the way I look at volunteerism; and destroyed all respect for anyone who volunteers. December 15 2016 I signed up to finish school when I was 18. I only had 10 credits and was capable of getting the other 20 in a year. There was only one problem. The school board wouldn't give me a diploma before I volunteered 40 hours. When I turned 16 I started paying rent which caused me to quit school cause I needed to afford food. When the Ontario school board told me that need to start working for free, I accepted it and started working the extra 4 hours on top of my 6 hour job on top of my 5 hours a day of school work. I just sucked it up exhausted for week and a half of extorted labor, the school board using my diploma as the hostage. Congrats Canada, I will never ever volunteer to help a community that forced me to work for them with zero compensation for a week. People have sued Tim Horton's for less. Before my week of mandated torture, I had always wanted to spend at least two days a week volunteering at a local hospital once I finished school. Now, I just want to work, become rich, and not donate a cent, to anyone. I want to become wealthy enough that I don't have to ever make a slave out of a student by using the food bank.

@elderwet273 5 жыл бұрын

Damn!