Building a Bridge for Learning | Jaylen Brown & David Kong | TEDxBeaconStreet

Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong.
At 23, Jaylen Brown is a rising star in the NBA with the Boston Celtics and also an activist and advocate for social justice and education reform. In this conversation, Jaylen is joined by Dr. David Sun Kong, Director of the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, to share his educational journey and how he hopes to make an impact on our education system. Jaylen also discusses his vision for a new learning initiative he is developing in collaboration with David and MIT. Jaylen Brown is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one year of college basketball for the University of California Golden Bears, being named first-team All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. Declaring for the 2016 NBA draft after that season, he was selected by the Celtics with the third overall pick. As a professional, he has split his time between shooting guard and small forward.
David Sun Kong, Ph.D. is a Synthetic Biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in Lexington, MA. He is the Director of the MIT Media Lab's new Community Biotechnology Initiative. Our mission: empowering communities through biotechnology.
David conducted his graduate studies at MIT’s Media Lab, receiving a Master's degree for developing technology for printing nanostructures with energetic beams and a Ph.D. for demonstrating the first gene synthesis in a microfluidic (“lab-on-a-chip”) system. He was recognized as an emerging leader in synthetic biology as a "LEAP" fellow, served as a guest faculty member at the Marine Biology Lab in Woods Hole, MA, and is co-founder and managing faculty of "How To Grow (Almost) Anything," an international course on synthetic biology. He founded and chaired new Microfluidic and Hardware Tracks for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM) and is the official iGEM DJ. He was Technical Staff in the Bioengineering Systems & Technologies group at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and a founding member of the synthetic biology team. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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Jaylen Brown actually is one of the few role models for tomorrow's athletes.

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Currently my favorite player in the NBA, not only because he plays hard but he is very intelligent. A great role model for others

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I guess you were right…

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Talk your $hit Jaylen 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Great work! 🤎✊🏾 So much love to your Mom, Grandma & Grandfather for shaping you into a powerful young man.

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It's a great pleasure to have him in Boston. I hope he chooses to stay for a long, long time

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Now he does 🤣

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Jaylen made me a celtics fan. Love his game and his mind.

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I love the idea of giving our youth tools and knowledge to help build them up in order to be fruitful inhabits of this country

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most likable nba player

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Having my son listen to Jaylen interview on learning, he’s looking into major in education

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4:48 to 5:13 "She knew that she couldn't save everybody" That hit me hard. I don't think the interviewer was able to grasp the emotional gravity of that testimonial.

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Jaylen Brown is just so amazing

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Not only loving JB games but just everything about this young man

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100%

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Jaylen thanks for showing the other side of sports..god bless

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Wow! So proud of you young man

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Jaylen Brown is a great player and thinker.

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This deserves more views.

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Very intelligent, a great role model. He is a legend in the making and is going to make a huge impact 😁👏🏾

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So much potential ahead!!!

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Here after he won finals mvp

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Shine your light king ✊🏾🖤✨

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I'm from Taiwan: I like Jaylen brown very much, he plays basketball and his eyes are very attractive, and he is also a vegetarian, he is really good

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Jaylen is becoming my favorite player.

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He’s so multifaceted it’s cool!

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Congrats on the Chip JB!

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Love JB

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Congrats MVP 👏

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Beautiful

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Such a great guy, role model for younger generations for sure

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The nature of his personality is suited to academics quiet shy thoughtful introspective … his build is definitely athletic … I hope he has a large family to pass on those genes . … rare in the USA …

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Rare by design/historical efforts/shaping factors.

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Intelligent role model

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Go get the chip..

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6:30 top 10% got her into any university? The disparity in standards across different people is wild.

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Maybe he’ll help change things

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Can you believe the Celts were thinking about trading him or Jayson Tatum?

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