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Dylan Arena
Dylan Arena

Dylan is a learning scientist with a background in cognitive science, philosophy, and statistics.


Click to learn more and to watch his talk “Mosaic of a Learner”…

Sasha Pasulka
Sasha Pasulka

Sasha is the Vice President of Marketing at Salad Labs, a social games company based in Seattle.


Click to learn more and to watch her talk “Designing a Mind”…

Emer Dooley
Emer Dooley

Emer serves as adjunct faculty in technology strategy, entrepreneurship and venture capital at the University of Washington.

Click to learn more and to watch her talk “Entrepreneurship Education: an Oxymoron?”…

Mike Dillon
Mike Dillon

Mike Dillon’s background spans over three decades of experience in custom design and fabrication, including nearly five years at Disney as an Imagineer.


Click to learn more and to watch his talk “The Secret to Creativity”…

Jamie Monberg
Jamie Monberg

Jamie is Chief Experience Officer at Hornall Anderson, where he quietly (and not so quietly) espouses the belief that defining interactive solely in terms of “digital” technology is an outdated way of thinking.

Click to learn more and to watch his talk “Affording Educational Experiences”…

Scott Young
Scott Young

Scott is a speed-reading, vegetarian, holistic learning, productivity hacking recent university graduate. And, for the last five years he’s been experimenting to find out how to get more from life.

Click to watch his talk “Can you get an MIT education for $2,000?”…

TEDxEPS2012

Our Thanks

Our second TEDxEastsidePrep was held on May 18th, 2012 at Central Cinema in Seattle, WA. Thanks to everyone who made this event a high-energy, fun, and inspirational day. We appreciate your presence and your support and hope to see you again next year!

Our Theme

The theme of TEDxEastsidePrep 2012 was Evolution of Instruction—Designing Experience. Our audience and consisted of a diverse of group of leaders, stakeholders and entrepreneurs in the worlds of education, business, technology and cognitive science.

Our inquiry was driven by these guiding questions:

What could education look like in the next 5-20 years? What can be done to optimally craft an engaging, consuming, educational experience?

  • What components are essential to a well-designed human experience? (in education?, in work?, in life?)
  • How could the educational experience (in school and outside of school) of young people be reimagined to be a more engaging, immersive experience that leads to a desire for lifetime learning? What can schools learn from other areas (business, research, arts, craftsmen, writers, etc.) to improve their product?