For Immediate Release
LIVE WEBCAST from the Bruce Museum: 1:05 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.
The Bruce Museum presents TEDxYouth@Bruce, on Saturday, March 26, 2011. A live webcast begins at 1:05 p.m. streamed over www.tedxyouthbruce.com
. This is the first ever TEDx Event hosted by a youth group at a museum in the United States. The event is being held in conjunction with the
Youth@Bruce sponsored Bruce Museum exhibition, The Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
Youth@Bruce invites students to participate in person. Free admission for students. Resevations necessary. Seating is limited. Arrival by 12:30 p.m. suggested. NO admittance into the Lecture Gallery after 1 p.m. but a simulcast will be shown in the Education Workshop.
RSVP to mlendenmann@brucemuseum.org, or 203-249-6894.The Bruce Museum is located at 1
Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT.
All can participate on-line at www.tedxyouthbruce.com
For more information, contact Mike Horyczun, Bruce Museum Director of Public Relations
(203) 413-6735, mike@brucemuseum.org
, or visit www.tedxyouthbruce.com
.
For TEDx press inquiries, contact Melody Serafino at mserafino@groupsjr.com
Guest TEDx Panelists and participants:
Jeff Jones: Photographer, Environmentalist, Creator of Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge
Fran Mauer: Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Bill McKibben: Environmentalist, Author, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College (via
Internet connection/Skype)
Sarah James: Neets’aii Gwich’in Indian, the northernmost Indian tribe in North America.
Andrew Revkin: New York Times journalist, writer
Denise Savageau: Greenwich Conservation Commissioner
Two TedxYouth videos will be played during the event and a question-and-answer period follows the guest panelist presentations.
The Bruce Museum offers special thanks to Firelight Media Group of Trumbull, CT,
for their assistance with webcast technology.

TEDxYouth@Bruce was developed to provide an informal forum for high school students to analyze and discuss science in the 21 st Century . Youth@Bruce is a participant in the Association of Science
Technology Centers’ Youth Inspired Challenge , a national program initiated by President Obama’s goal to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics in America’s education programs. This
TEDx is an =independently organized event licensed under TED, and Youth@Bruce’s work on garnering support for the Arctic Sanctuary exhibition are the some of the first projects recognized under the ASTC
Youth Inspired Challenge.
About TEDx, x=independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded
TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*
(*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in
California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives.
The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane
Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert,Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani,Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long
Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation
Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world, and the
TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the
TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED
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