Inaugural TEDxBaltimore at Morgan State University

Baltimore's first-ever TEDx event took place Jan. 25 at Morgan State and featured, among others, Lance Lucas of Digit All Systems, Western High School student and robotics enthusiast Keimmie Booth, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's ORCHKids.

  1. RT @technicallyBMR: Lance Lucas on using untapped populations to fill cybersecurity jobs. Read about "Street Geeks": http://technicallybaltimore.com/profiles/digit-all-systems-street-geeks-to-equip-students-for-some-of-14m-cloud-computing-jobs-coming-by-2015/ #TEDxBaltimore
  2. "If you dont have the uniform, you cant play the game. We've got to give them the opportunity..." #TedxBaltimore
  3. Bond, James Piper Bond: Other world harbors, Imma let you finish, but Baltimore's harbor is the most beautiful of all time. #TEDxBaltimore
  4. Learning abt the Children's Target Investment Zone to break poverty in East #Baltimore. #TEDxBaltimore
  5. Your #TEDxBaltimore word of the day: pipeline. How do we take kids from elementary school through college successfully? #TEDxBaltimore
  6. Healthy food. Exercise. Safe neighborhoods. Then, you'll have kids focused on education. #LivingClassroomsFoundation #TEDxBaltimore
  7. "Teenagers know where we wanna go, we just don't know how to get there or where to find the help." -- Keimmie Booth #TEDxBaltimore
  8. “Your passion is what is on your mind from the minute you wake up until the minute you go to sleep every day” @keimmiebooth #TEDxBaltimore
  9. I wish my high school had offered robotics. Students this day are very lucky to have so many opportunities available to them. #TEDxBaltimore
  10. .@keimmiebooth just brought the house of #TEDxBaltimore to their feet with her story of passion and extracurricular explorations!
  11. Noor Siddiqui: To those who say it can't be done, "Don't interrupt those who are doing it". #TedxBaltimore
  12. Roni Ellington of @MorganStateU at #TEDxBaltimore: the "Angry Black Woman's feelings on future of STEM education." http://pic.twitter.com/Cx7iV0yV
  13. Perception of STEM disciplines that "they are hard" and therefore people in STEM are "special." Roni Ellington at #TEDxBaltimore
  14. Inclusive framework for STEM ed: support student identity; teachers must be agents of change; use community capital; think outside the book
  15. Roni Ellington says "we need to think outside the book" #TEDxBaltimore
  16. .@DHFBaltimore's Austin DJing at #tedxbaltimore -- and getting job offers left and right. @ TEDxBaltimore instagr.am/p/U6dvIsPasn/
  17. "Violence or the threat of it is ... characteristic of undemocratic control." #TEDxBaltimore

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