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10/03/2026

Two hours before Ethan Benater was supposed to show what his startup had built, the rest of his team quit.

No product. No software. Just seven PowerPoint slides and an idea he still believed in.

He decided to show up anyway.

Today on the TEDxAtlanta Youth stage, Ethan shared what happened after that. He kept building and eventually created a tool that helps people track their ni****ne use and gradually cut back.

At the start, he had no idea how he was going to build it. He just knew he wanted to keep going.

10/03/2026

Sometimes, success means helping someone beat you at your own game.

Akos Vida built a gaming controller add-on for Levi, who has cerebral palsy. Early designs earned praise from mentors, but Levi still couldn’t use them to play.

Making it work meant learning to let Levi guide the design. His experience became the measure of progress.

When Levi finally beat Akos in a racing game, it was a victory for both of them. They could play together.

Akos’s story reminded us why inclusion matters: everyone deserves the chance to join in, bring their best, and surprise us.

10/03/2026

Kids don’t usually wear out their clothes. They outgrow them. So why does a nearly new onesie so often reach the end of its life after one child?

TEDxAtlanta Youth speaker Kanushi Dua found that the problem isn’t a lack of clothes to pass along, or even a lack of willingness. It’s trust.

Her idea: Use AI to verify a garment’s condition at scale, making resale easier for parents and viable for retailers.

A onesie doesn’t have to mean one wear.

10/03/2026

We’re trying something new on the TEDxAtlanta Youth stage today with one of our first On the Spot conversations.

Zoe Oli and her mom, Evana Eko, are talking across generations about trust, disagreement and what each sees that the other doesn’t.

One moment we’re still thinking about — Zoe asked her mom to worry less. Evana asked Zoe to celebrate more.

Two generations, each seeing something the other needed to hear.

10/03/2026

The Youth Drum Team from the Taiwanese School of Georgia brought Taiwanese drumming to the TEDxAtlanta Youth stage.

Through rhythm, precision and energy, the team shared a tradition with the audience and made its presence felt across the room.

10/03/2026

“The fox branded itself after seeing the tiger.”

Translated word for word, the Telugu proverb doesn’t make much sense. Know the story behind it, and suddenly it does.

TEDxAtlanta Youth speaker Nidhi Madam’s makes the case that when we preserve a language, we keep its stories alive, too.

10/03/2026

The future of technology should be shaped by the people who will live with it.

Ian Sun brought the conversation about AI closer to home: to the communities beside the data centers that power it.

With his friend Matthew, he built a tool that brought public data together to compare potential locations, considering engineering needs alongside environmental burdens.

The tool was a starting point. The bigger purpose was to help people understand the choices affecting their communities while they still had time to influence them.

Ian’s talk offered a hopeful path forward: more people with the information, confidence and opportunity to help shape what comes next.

10/03/2026

Young people deserve a say in the world they’re already helping shape.

At eight, Temple Lester arrived at science camp ready to experiment. Instead, the only girl in the group was called “princess” and assigned to prepare experiments for the boys.

She spoke up. Soon, she was building rockets alongside them.

Temple shared that story to challenge how easily age and assumptions can keep someone’s potential out of view.

Calling young people “the future” means little if we keep overlooking what they can contribute today. Giving them room to participate starts with taking their ideas seriously and being willing to learn from them.

10/03/2026

The Atlanta Boy Choir brought its voices to TEDxAtlanta Youth, sharing a sound rooted in Atlanta on a stage devoted to young people and big ideas.

Together, the choir gave the audience a moment of harmony to carry beyond the room.

10/03/2026

A world performance debut just happened on the TEDxAtlanta stage.

Composer and instrument designer Matias Cevallos introduced TILES, a new electronic instrument designed to make digital music feel more physical. Using touch, pressure, movement and haptic feedback, TILES responds to the musician in ways we usually associate with acoustic instruments.

And today, we got to hear it for the first time in an original composition performed live at TEDxAtlanta.

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