Theme: No Limits

TEDxNorthviewHighSchool is launching our second TEDx experience this year through the theme No Limits, presented by 6 remarkable youth speakers from Johns Creek, Georgia, with ideas worth spreading. Our aim is to foster connectivity, spark conversations, and highlight the powerful ideas of our community’s youth.

Northview High School
10625 Parsons Rd
Johns Creek, Georgia, 30097
United States

Katie Wang

Speaker

Katie Wang is a junior at Peachtree Ridge High School. Her TEDx Talk will analyze the power of self-love and confidence in overcoming one's limits, especially during challenging times. Katie is currently the Programming Lead of her school's Robotics team and placed first in the systems software category with a $500 scholarship at the 2021 Gwinnett science fair. During the pandemic, she helped create 7 coding lessons and instructed over 100 girls as the Content Lead of CodeHers Collective, a non-profit organization. She is also a hackathon enthusiast and has developed several award-winning websites and mobile apps to support those with mental health problems. When she's not stressing over broken code, Katie is usually watching café vlogs of yummy desserts or practicing piano.

Pallavi Dokka

Speaker

Pallavi Dokka is a junior at Northview High School. Her foundation for her TED Talk lies within her passion for biology (more specifically its subfield neuroscience). Ever since her friend's mother was diagnosed with stage four ALS, her life has been turned completely, for the better and the worse; she has only been further intrigued to solve the mystery of one of the world's most inexplicable diseases. Ever since last year when she found out, she has taken steps to work towards a solution for her situation, including starting Northview's very first neuroscience club chapter for the International Youth Neuroscience Association and collaborating with the National Psychology Honors Society this year. However, she believes there are many more people who she could capture the attention of to her story.

Rakshith Ramdas

Speaker

Rakshith Ramdas is a senior at Northview High School. He plans on attending the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a Political Science major after graduation. As his major may suggest, he is passionate about improving communities and stimulating meaningful dialogue between people so that better solutions to problems are created. This is his first time giving a public speech of this caliber, but he is excited about the opportunity and what he can do with it!

Shawn Shen

Speaker

Shawn Shen is a high school senior at Northview High School. He moved to the United States when he was 8. Initially, his priority moving here was to just learn how to speak English. Soon, he started to develop a love for playing basketball with his friends and filming videos of him doing simple magic tricks. Since then, he started to perform magic tricks for numerous organizations. During the summer, he would often visit Taiwan and give presentations to elementary kids about the cultural differences of America and Taiwan.

Shruthi Balachander

Speaker

Shruthi Balachander is a junior at Northview High School. She loves being involved with her community and learning more about the people around her and the differences that bring us together. As a Speaker for the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame in 2019 and former National Speech and Debate Association speech member, she is passionate about bringing new perspectives relating to common ideas in our society. Her TED talk focuses on breaking the limits of society’s definitions of words, especially the word “fat” and perceiving the word without the negative connotation it is carried with. Exemplified in her love for culture, she is also the President of Northview Kaleidoscope, and as a dedicated student of the 3DE program at Northview, she has won several cases, showcasing her creative solutions to Home Depot at Nationals and Porter Novelli, Jackson Healthcare, CHEP, and UPS at locals.

Zeenia Charania

Speaker

Zeenia Charania is a junior at Northview High School. She enjoys expressing her voice and inspiring others through creative outlets like singing, dancing, acting, and public speaker. In addition, she loves socializing and meeting new people in her school and community. Zeenia is also a video and content creator on platforms such as YouTube. In her free time, she journals and does creative writing.