TEDxSeletar Youth

Speakers

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• Aqief Sufyan

  At 20, Aqief never really outgrew his childhood obsession with dinosaurs. It followed him all the way into a job, a nickname and a voice of his own. Sometimes, what we love as kids turns out to matter more than we think.

• Elvyn Ee

  Elvyn, a 16-year-old student, lives by his “1:99 Confidence Playbook”..... Because waiting to feel ready is howusually nothing happens.

• Eng Yeow Khor

  At 24. Eng Yeow. a final-year SMU undergraduate. invites us to question when rules guide us and when they limit us, sharing stories from the lenses of law and sport.

• Evelyn Yeow

  Evelyn, a 20-year-old NUS Psychology undergraduate, shares how invisible pain changed the way she sees invisible people, and why empathy often begins with learning to notice what people don’t see.

• Fei Ran Yap

  At 17. Fei Ran explores why we avoid asking ‘stupid’ questions, and how these moments of uncertainty can reveal gaps in our understanding and lead to deeper learning in a fast-changing world.

• Graeme Ru

  At the grand old age of 12, Graeme has learnt that jokes in school is risky. Sometimes, people laugh; sometimes they don't.... Either way, you learn something.

• Jie Ying Tee

  At just 14, Jie Ying has learnt that being afraid to be bad doesn’t protect you; it just stops you from improving. So she decided to try anyway.

• Jingyao Tin

  At 25, Jingyao, an 8-time Singapore National Chess Champion and a final-year NUS Computer Science undergraduate, shares how chess is about making decisions underpressure, and learning from the ones that go wrong.

• Kai Yuan Tan

  Kai Yuan. a 16-year-old student, explores how confidence can create the illusion of understanding, and why asking questions may matter more than appearing certain.

• Lucas Chua

  Lucas, a 17-year-old JC student, shares how one decision to speak up changed more than just an event, and how small voices, when used, can create real change.

• Nay Wun Thant

  At 17, Nay Wun. a seasoned orator and winner of various nationallevel speaking contests, explores the real force that silences us, and shares how shifting both the way we speak - and listen can unlock voices.

• Sarthak Basak

  Currently a 19-year-old serving NS, Sarthak reflects on a journey shaped by setback, injury and rebuilding - and how the moments that almost stopped him became the ones that pushed him forward.

• Tenzin Dhakar

  Tenzin Dhakar. a 23-year-old SMU law undergraduate, reflects on identity and belonging, and what it means to find your place while staying true to who you are.

• Varsaah Thevaranjan

  Varsaah, 19, is preparing to enter university and shares how being mistaken for “basically Indian” shaped her understanding of identity, and the limits of labels.

• William Win Thant Aung

  At 14. William belongs to the first generation of students growing up with AI. He asks what happens when thinking is no longer something we do alone.