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Who is eligible?
Young Minds is open to all 18-24 year olds from the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. (Click here for complete rules.)
What is the deadline?
Friday, September 2, 2011
What is Young Minds?
Young Minds is a competition to find 12 young people who have made or are trying to make a positive difference in the world. It’s a platform to promote how young people are doing their bit to help their communities and make a difference to the world in which we live.
Previous Young Minds winners have had big ideas and taken steps to make their ideas a reality. The winners attended Zeitgeist Europe 2011, met an array of of influential business leaders and three of the winners even had a chance to speak at the event and had their say.
Now it’s your turn. We want to find twelve 18-24 year olds who will win a chance to attend a special program of events and master classes held at this year’s Zeitgeist Americas 2011. Upload your entry here by August 25, 2011 for the chance to rub elbows with the best and brightest people on the planet.
What is Zeitgeist?
Zeitgeist is a special event hosted by Google, that brings together over 400 of the planet’s top leaders and biggest brains – from businessmen to bloggers and inventors to activists. Why? To talk about the big issues affecting our everyday lives and hear what they think is shaping this weird and wonderful world of ours. You can view talks from past Zeitgeist events in full at zeitgeistminds.com.
Who will be judging my video?
Jennifer Corriero
Jennifer co-founded TakingITGlobal (TIG), an international organization - led by youth and enabled by technology. TIG connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action to improve their local and global communities. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a growing worldwide presence, the organization's flagship program is TakingITGlobal.org.The website involves over 350,000 members from over 200 countries and receives over 5 million unique visitors annually. Jennifer was also a recent Zeitgeist speaker, in 2008 she spoke about how young people can contribute to solving some of the world’s greatest problems.
Oscar Morales Guevara
Oscar is the creator of the One Million Voices against FARC Facebook movement, and organized the No Mas FARC protests that rallied 12 million people in 200 cities across the world, considered the largest antiterrorism demonstrations in history. As founder of the One Million Voices Foundation, Morales Guevara has been a speaker in Facebook Headquarters, Advertising Week 2008, and Google Zeitgeist 2009. His movement inspired the "Alliance of Youth Movements", comprising movements from around the world using social media to promote causes against terrorism, violence, and extremism. He spoke at Zeitgeist in 2009 discussing the impact of people power on politics and what technology means for the future of citizen involvement.
Sheila Nix
As ONE’s US Executive Director, Sheila Nix is responsible for ONE’s advocacy, communications and campaign activities in the United States. She brings a wealth of experience having worked in federal and state politics for the last 20 years. Just before joining ONE, she was a senior vice-president for the Strategy Group focusing on direct mail strategy and production for presidential, congressional and state races.
Stephen Greene
Stephen is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based RockCorps, a pro-social production company that puts on concerts but doesn't sell tickets. Instead, RockCorps concertgoers must volunteer four hours to a local nonprofit organization to get into the highly coveted shows, which feature artists like Kanye West and Panic at the Disco.
Paul Carillo
Paul was born into a gang family in Los Angeles and grew up around drugs, abuse, gangs, violence, murder and poverty. After years of fighting to detach him self from that environment he was at a Crossroads when a close friend was killed and his first born child was on the way. There were only two choices moving forward. Paul has been a powerful force in Los Angeles over the past 10+ years, striving to keep peace on the streets amongst youth and rivaling gangs by providing services in Juvenile Detention facilities, County Jails, Schools, hospitals and on the streets of L.A. He is Co-founder and Executive Director of Southern California Crossroads, a program that intervenes in to the lives of active gang members in order to rehabilitate them and their communities. He is also the Injury Prevention Coordinator at St. Francis Medical Center, Instructor and Curriculum Development Team member for the Advancement Project. Paul has recently traveled to Arizona, New York, London and Ireland speaking about youth violence, radicalization and extremism.
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