TEDxMiami Coral Park

Speaker Application Form

Apply with your original ideas on how "How Opportunities Shape Futures" and inspire meaningful discussion.
Event Information
TEDxMiami Coral Park Senior High School will take place in the school's auditorium. Miami Coral Park Senior High School is located at 8865 SW 16th St, Miami, FL 33165. The event is tentatively taking place in October, 2026.
What We’re Looking For
At TEDxMiami Coral Park Senior High School, we are curating a program centered on our theme: “How opportunities shape futures.” We are looking for speakers who can explore this theme through clear, original, and thought-provoking ideas -- not just personal stories, but insights that can change how an audience thinks. While talks may come from any discipline, we are especially interested in ideas that fall within the following areas:
- Identity
- Culture
- Opportunity & Access
- Education
- Leadership
- Innovation & Technology
- Community & Belonging
- Social Change
- Creativity & Expression
- Resilience & Growth
- Future Pathways

Basic Information
Full Name

First NameLast Name
Email
example@example.com
Phone Number
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Current Role / Affiliation (e.g. Student, community member, etc.)
LinkedIn or Website
Your Talk Idea
1. What is your core idea?
This is not a topic. What is the idea or insight you want to share?
2. Describe your idea in more detail
150–300 words. What is the argument, insight, or perspective? What makes it new or worth sharing?
3. Why does this idea matter now?
Why should a high school and administrative audience care?
4. How does your idea connect to our theme: “How opportunities shape futures”?
Credibility & Perspective
5. What experience or background gives you authority on this idea?
Personal experience? Research? Professional work?
6. What makes your perspective unique?
Experience
7. Have you spoken publicly before?
If yes, where?
8. What kind of talk would this be?
9. In one sentence: what should the audience walk away thinking differently about?
Fit & Logistics
10. Are you available for coaching and rehearsals leading up to the event? All speakers are required to meet for coaching and recitals in-person and/or via Zoom. The sessions will attempt to best fit the schedules of the speakers.
11. What is one common misconception about your topic that your talk challenges?
12. Anything else you’d like us to know?
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Speaker Application Form