All of us want to hear the talks of some informed people about different topics for learning something and discover new perspectives. When we wanted to hear a talk we can find a talk on TED.com. TED is an international organization for talks, they have very serious prestige. Our purpose is creating TED Talks in RC at first but after our discussions we decided to create a club for organizing these TED talks and thus each year TED talks can be. The club will organize all things for talks every year and at last of the year a TEDx will occur. We are thinking to organize TEDx, TEDx is a little bit different from other programs. TEDx is a program for individual plans. In summary, we will try to create a club for organizing the TEDx in RC because everyone needs some different ideas and most effective way is talks for it.

Everyone has not a role in our group, everyone should help to others and we should do it together; C. is the leader of project because he thought this idea and he had searched and he knows much than us. C. and B. will try mailing with TED if possible and all of us prepared questions for interviews, we planned the schedule and we are laboring with some problems still. If this project can be real, each of us will have a duty in the club, we did not specify any job. For now, we are doing every job in the group.

  

Robert College always deserves more. In class our teachers always show some TED talks and they say watch something like this will help to our development and we want to bring these talks to RC.    

All RC community members can benefit from this project; students (9s and 10s because we don’t want to accept the 11s and 12s) can join the club and they can work in an organize the club and they can improve their organize skills also this club will processing to CV and TED organize club will be a big club like DI, JA, etc.. Other students and teachers can watch the talks and they can learn new ideas and they will watch really beneficial show. Maybe parents can join to TEDx as a visitor. We are thinking to call the alumnus as a talker for give the speech at TED. Admin will gain prestige. Also, TED Talks occur seldom in Turkey and if we can do it this will be beneficial for Turkey’s development.

We had a lot of problems; in the first part we couldn’t make a decision between TEDx, TEDed, TED we searched, we discussed and our decision was TEDx. We couldn’t adjust the budget because we wasn’t know anything about the school budget and sponsors, we are thinking find some sponsors if school doesn’t give money. Our planning step was easier than other steps but we had some problems about max number of students, advertisements and distribution of tasks. Our hardest challenge was finding an advisor. We couldn’t find anyone for advisor but we are looking for advisor still. We may experience the advisor problem in the future because nearly all teachers have a club and they are generally busy consequently we couldn’t find an advisor yet. After we established the club we will labor the financial processes and club administration processes.

We discussed the challenges as a group and we did interview with a teacher and dean of Student activities and we solved some problems besides we solved some problems with discuss. Here the results; we need the advertisers and sponsors and according to with a teacher we did accept her opinions, advertising can be more effective when announced at the announcements and flag ceremonies. Maybe, we can find a speaker for advertising. After we established the club, we will distribution of tasks and we will find an effective speaker for this role. Another problem is sponsoring. Finding a sponsor is a hard job and we discussed this topic as a group with our interviews. We separated the club as a financial and content. The financial part of the club will adjust the sponsors, advertisements, too. Content part will adjust the speakers, they will content with alumnus and other available speakers. Student activities did a huge help to us about the speakers. He had seen the before TED Talks in the school and he advised to us the other TED organizers, Ege Yumuşak, Göksenin Akdeniz, Hilal Kocabıyık had done the old TEDs and we will the interview with them. In our discussions we labored about the budget mostly. According to Student activities, the school can give the some money for this project but we don’t think that money will be enough for us so; sponsors are very important factor for us.  Also, the club day and a number of club members are other problems. We discussed a lot, we would fight in the discussion, nearly and our suggestions; the club will be on Thursday because of Cem’s plans. We also decided the number of members and our decision is max 11 members.

Everyone needs to hear some different ideas and discuss their ideas with others, TED has created for this and this organization will come to RC. We want to do that so much as a group and we worked on it like ants. We lived very heated discussions. We wrote our decisions to progress diary immediately. We took notes while we are interviewing with with a teacher and Student activities and we used them in our discussion group. At first we were thinking about the problems. What it will be? TEDx, TEDed, etc. Financial problems, advertising and sponsors… Basic problems of a club: number of members, the day, etc. At the first part we were in a predicament but we shared our ideas with the others and our interviews solved the problems, nearly all of them.

I often used our progress diary, especially while I am writing the challenges and finding from our interviews. It helped to me a lot. I am grateful to that progress diary because if it had not, I wouldn’t support my ideas with evidences.

My conversation techniques improved, indeed. When I talked about my opinions in my group I felt so comfortable and I show these comfortable movements in class, in my friend groups. After the project when I present something front of my class I felt the same comfort because I had the same thing with my TED group; I had shared my ideas without fearlessly. This work destroyed my bashfulness. In the first part of the project, I was not thinking this project will improve me but I was wrong.