TEDxDawson CC

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April 13th, 2024

9am - 4pm

Toepke Center Auditorium

Dawson Community College

Glendive, Montana

TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, but today it spans a multitude of worldwide communities and initiatives exploring everything from science and business to education, arts and global issues. In addition to the hundreds of TED Talks curated from our annual conferences and published on TED.com, we produce original podcasts, short video series, animated educational lessons (TED-Ed) and TV programs that are translated into more than 100 languages and distributed via partnerships around the world. Each year, more than 3,000 independently run TEDx events bring people together to share ideas and bridge divides in communities on every continent. Through the Audacious Project, TED has helped catalyze more than $3 billion in funding for projects that seek to make the world more beautiful, sustainable and just. In 2020, TED launched Countdown, an initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis and mobilize a movement for a net-zero future.

View a full list of TED’s many programs and initiatives.

TED is owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation. Our aim is to help create a future worth pursuing for all.

ABOUT TED

TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.

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ABOUT TEDx

TEDx, x = independently organized event

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, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. 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.)

*This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED

TEDxDawson CC

TEDxDawson CC will showcase several speakers who will share “a big idea” with their audience. Each speaker will have 18 minutes or less to get their point across. While some will be sharing personal experience or knowledge, others may be informing the audience of something they've learned or would like to pass on to the audience. Whatever the case, these speakers are sure to entertain the inquisitive minds who attend.

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TEDxDawson CC

Event Team

Cindy Larsen

Licensee + Coordinator

Montana native, born and raised in Eastern Montana. Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services. Married to John Larsen for over 30 years and lived across Montana before moving back to the prairie in 2012.

Business owner since her first born was little but moved into Social Justice Causes after her children went to school.

Grant writer, worked with the treatment courts and in child welfare.

Child Bridge Regional Director for Billings and Eastern Montana and Board Chair for DCC Board of Trustees.

Mother to two adult children and one special daughter through adoption.

A native of Montana. Lover of the ocean. Wife, Mother, Sister, and Daughter. Hiker, Fly Fisherwoman, Yogi, and Gardner. Chauffer, Cook, Assistant, and Banker to Jane.

Jamie McMillan

Venue + Spaces