TEDxYouth@HaileyburyAstana

TedxYouth@HaileyburyAstana is a pupil-organised conference that includes live speakers and is operated under a free licence of TED, a nonprofit organization whose slogan is “Ideas worth spreading.” The inspiring event was initiated and planned out by IB students independently as Haileybury Astana education encourages leadership and global thinking in pupils.

Haileybury Astana is delighted to host the third annual TEDxYouth conference on June 10th, 2023. This year’s conference is traditionally organized primarily by Sixth Form students. The featured theme is ‘Think Again’ - a prompt emphasizing the importance of open-mindedness, critical thinking, and questioning assumptions. Haileybury Astana is proud to host a wide range of speakers, including successful entrepreneurs and innovators.

The theme, ‘Think Again’, embraces creativity, innovation, and ingenuity. Our speakers will share how Thinking Again allowed them to achieve excellence and reach outstanding degrees of attainment, leading them to success. Haileybury Astana endorses these qualities, embedding our students with valuable traits that will allow them to illuminate the world as our future leaders, and stick out as exceptional.

On June 11th, 2022 Haileybury Astana hosted the second annual TEDxYouth@HaileyburyAstana conference. The event was fully organised by our IB students featuring the theme, ‘Unique’, which celebrates the differences that make us who we are. Speakers from all walks of life shared their experiences and insights with the audience.

Every person is Unique in their own way. An individual's culture, hobbies, interests, field of work, life experiences, and passion are Unique about them and Unique for them. TEDxYouth@HaileyburyAstana conference gave the opportunity to explore ideas and interests that are unique to speakers, and inspire attendees to find what makes them truly unique.

At Haileybury Astana, Sixth Form students recognise the importance of engaging in global issues as young people. They wanted to share this opportunity with those around them, giving younger students a chance to experience different perspectives. 

Last year's theme Unique encouraged all attendees to explore their own place in the world and what they personally can contribute to it.

In June 2021, Haileybury Astana pupils organized a TEDxYouth@HaileyburyAstana event under the theme of "FORWARDS”. This theme was chosen to represent the way straight to the future, overcoming all the obstacles on the way. 

During this fabulous event, three students from Haileybury Astana, Nazarbayev university students, health representatives and Dutch and German embassy representatives Andre Carstens and Holgar Kolley shared their experiences and ideas with the audience. 

We believe that TedxYouth@HaileyburyAstana is an excellent addition to a wide range of co-curricular activities at Haileybury Astana, as the conference sparks important conversations about world issues and develops pupils’ public speaking skills.

Haileybury Astana is one of the schools that provide such programmes, letting students create and organize their own projects like TEDxYouth@HaileyburyAstana