The power of play: Shweta Chari at TEDxEMWS

Every great journey starts with a tiny step. Shweta Chari's started with a simple thought, she wanted to ensure that every child had a toy. After having completed her engineering courses in 2004, she decided that rather than attaining an IT job in the US, her real calling was in putting her one simple thought into action & thus, now handles Toybank’s core strategies. The organization, armed with the belief that giving underprivileged children toys results in the betterment of society, aims at procuring toys from children with plenty of access to them & giving it to those children who lack toys. The organization currently operates in 6 cities with 70,000 children now having access to the organisation.

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)

TEDxEMWS is the brave venture into the world of innovation and reflection for members of the ever-evolving education community in Mumbai.

TEDxEMWS was held on the 1st of February 2014. Bringing together the TED philosophy & the IB mission statement, the event aimed to ensure that speakers of various disciplines come together so as to be able to inspire the new generation of leaders into reforming society & ushering in new changes. By bringing together high school students from around Mumbai, the aim of the event is not necessarily to change the views of those present completely but simply open them to the different possibilities that can be explored as speakers build their talks around the theme 'Limitless Paradigms'.

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