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The Power of Discovery | Jenna Grossbarth | TEDxYouth@CHSN


[Applause]
thank you so much miss Nutella for
sharing your experiences with us our
next speaker is Jenna guru sparked a
graduating senior Jenna worked
tirelessly as the stage manager for
North’s fall drama Arabian Nights and
she also helped greatly and managing the
TEDx stage and set design her creativity
and endless generosity will live on and
inspire many others next year at the
University of Southern Maine please
welcome to the stage
Thank You second Alec I would also like
to thank everybody who made this made
possible I am so much to speak and share
what I feel what matters to you guys in
the audience so this fall I have the
opportunity to see the revival in Spring
Awakening with my feet across the
revival was dubbed their deaf West
theatre company out in California and
have the characters in the shell or
death for those of you don’t know Spring
Awakening was a Broadway show that
opened in 2006 and it deals with the
themes of teenage sexuality control and
repression in eighteen nineties Germany
so the revival will suffer death once in
this picture you can see Sandra my
friend beside eight in the front and
keep both in the back singing they both
share the same role as been gone did I
mention the show’s revolutionary the
actors help separate from the lenses
krysta Rodriguez who battled breast
cancer throughout the opening the show
this fall and the actors found the
second from the left is Ali stroker who
is the first actress on Broadway to
perform in the wheelchair with a
disability the show estate of the altar
of my senior year and I honestly
couldn’t figure out why they’re good a
lot of a Broadway shows the thoughts
always in the back of my head music oh
he’s on repeated my ears but why I
couldn’t figure it out he told my turn
to be on stage for my theater final I
had to create piece of theatre using a
philosophy so I chose a philosophy
called justice and chose to do it
alongside ASL on top of Shakespeare
monologue it wasn’t easy but when I got
up there I realized I loved what I was
doing I could communicate with so much
more than my words and from there I fell
in love with ASL I think we as a society
focus on being that of one thing I
started high school doing Peter the arts
because I wasn’t athletic and upper
sports I later not involved in science
was I thought it was interesting and now
as a senior I want to learn ASL so
people don’t really know is due Italy
they can’t classify me as a job or a
nerd or theater geek because I refused
to allow myself a singular label so if I
think that’s lonely but I feel that I’ve
been blessed an opportunity to dissolve
keep learning and desire all that is
good to me if we foster discovery sort
of finding our niches imagine the
possibilities scientists become creative
and are better able to show that they
know creatively mathematicians use
sports knowledge to better understand
their crap the list goes on our lives
are not medical one thing so why should
our education thing American education
focuses on specialization not the
continuation of discovery students are
encouraged to find the one thing that
would add one another sports or academia
and keep keep doing that one thing not
to keep looking for the new my friends
tell me man I wish I got to feed in high
school or I’d like to learn that
language but maybe someday and my
response that is why don’t you do it and
do it now the time is now in two places
now if there’s no time make time if
there’s no resources it’s all of your
fingertips or in your back pocket on
your phone because if we stop
discovering if you stop learning why
we’re here the moment in your life when
you were no longer to get up and do
something new is what you take your
final breath what we discover when we
create something truly magical happens
our brains relish new information
scientists say that one of the best ways
to combat Alzheimer’s or dementia is to
keep learning language keep discovering
and learning and challenging our brain
even as we age make it’s hard our breaks
the muscle just as any other in our body
so why should we let it deteriorate Lee
focused on how we look if you leave with
one thing my talk let apenas there is
nothing stopping you from going out and
learn
a new language you’ve always wanted who
are picking up the hobby of anything how the tools are going to do it so on
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