Watch the 2010 ideaCity Videos!

Watch presentations from Tavi Gevinson, Margaret Atwood, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Natalie Tran and Adora Svitak from ideaCity10

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson is the 14 year-old creator of the hit fashion blog, Style Rookie, and contributor to Pop magazine’s blog: tavi.thepop.com. She has contributed to Harper’s Bazaar, Love, Pop, and Spur as writer, photographer and stylist, and was featured on the cover of Pop this past fall. At ideaCity2010, Tavi talks about her thoughts on Sassy Magazine, labels, fashion and feminism.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award seven times, winning twice.

 

Adora Svitak

To inspire the teachers of tomorrow, she speaks at schools of education including DePaul and Bowling Green State University. Adora advocates for education innovation around the world. A prolific writer on education and related technology, Adora has written for EdTech Magazine. She is a prodigious blogger, posting on 21st-century learning at The Educators’ Royal Treatment, a blog dedicated to education. She was nominated in 2009 for the Edublogs Student Blog Award. Adora’s books include; Flying Fingers, an engaging how-to hand book on writing for parents and kids from a student’s point of view; Dancing Fingers, a collection of poetry she co-authored with her sister Adrianna; and Yang in Disguise, a coming-of-age fantasy novel with undertones of political satire. At ideaCity10, Adora discusses the old saying "Let Kids Be Kids" and what it really means (or shouldn’t).

Dr. Sylvia Earle

Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater, and has also set the record for the deepest solo untethered dive – 3,000 feet into the Pacific Ocean. She has served as the chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is currently an explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society. At ideaCity2010, Sylvia discusses life underwater and the natural systems that keep us alive.

Natalie Tran

Natalie is a Digital Media student who makes short videos on the side. Her videos have attracted more than 213,000,000 hits with approximately 600,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, making her the most subscribed and watched Australian on YouTube and one of the top 20 globally.

Tran was one of the Australian YouTube celebrities invited to talk about the site at the launch of YouTube Australia in 2007. Her videos are short satirical skits revolving around everyday observations. Natalie’s videos tend to feature her playing multiple characters while mulling over a topic such as how joggers always find dead bodies and whether jogging at night can help reduce this possibility.

 

 

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