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Cindy Lange-Kubick: On the TED Talk trail in Lincoln
- Sep 18, 2016
- Sep 18, 2016 Updated Jul 31, 2018
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Matty Merritt, a 20-year-old UNL student, practices her TEDxLincoln speech in front of coaches in August. In its first five years, TEDxLincoln has showcased 120 speakers.
- KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star
Matty Merritt (from right) takes advice from TEDxLincoln coaches Jan Bretz, Shelbi Bretz and T. Marni Vos during a practice session in August. This year's local TED talk is Sept. 23.
- KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star
Coaches T. Marni Vos (from left), Shelbi Bretz and Jan Bretz offer critiques and advice to TEDxLincoln speaker Matty Merritt during a coaching session in August.
- KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star
TEDxLincoln speaker Matty Merritt (center) takes advice from coaches Jan Bretz (from left), Shelbi Bretz, and T. Marni Vos during a practice session in August.
- KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star
Coach Jan Bretz laughs as she listens to Matty Merritt practice her TEDxLincoln talk.
- KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star
Speakers and coaches for the upcoming TEDxLincoln 2016 event gather Wednesday evening at Firespring to listen to -- and critique -- each others talks.
- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK, Journal Star
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In late June, a group of strangers got together to eat dinner and drink the TEDx Kool-Aid.
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This year's speakers:
* Stuart Chittenden: Awakening Humanity through Conversation
*** Shane Farritor:** Don’t Measure, Cut Twice
*** Ronnie Green:** Sustainable Food Security for 11B: THE Millennial Grand Challenge
*** Pat Leach:** Let’s Start a Movement-Slow Reading
*** Andrew McDonald:** The Radical Virtue of Compromise
*** Matti Merritt:** Laugh With It
* Monica Mueller: Tostones & Kolaches
*** Zora Murff:** Life in the System: Image, Influence, and Identification
*** Bryan Seck:** Connecting Part-time jobs to Full-Time Careers
* Lori Seibel: Confessions of a Mapmaker
* Marianne Worthington: This is Ridiculous
* Sara Sawatzki: An Unlikely Ally in a Refugee Crisis
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Matty Merritt, a 20-year-old UNL student, practices her TEDxLincoln speech in front of coaches in August. In its first five years, TEDxLincoln has showcased 120 speakers.
- KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star
Matty Merritt (from right) takes advice from TEDxLincoln coaches Jan Bretz, Shelbi Bretz and T. Marni Vos during a practice session in August. This year's local TED talk is Sept. 23.
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Coaches T. Marni Vos (from left), Shelbi Bretz and Jan Bretz offer critiques and advice to TEDxLincoln speaker Matty Merritt during a coaching session in August.
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TEDxLincoln speaker Matty Merritt (center) takes advice from coaches Jan Bretz (from left), Shelbi Bretz, and T. Marni Vos during a practice session in August.
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Coach Jan Bretz laughs as she listens to Matty Merritt practice her TEDxLincoln talk.
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