Rethinking teenage stress | Miranda Garcia | TEDxABQ

Miranda Garcia, a senior at V. Sue Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, examines how teenage stress is understood and supported. Drawing on her own research, she questions what adults may be getting wrong when they help teenagers today. The talk was given at an independently organized TEDx event.

• Reframing how teen stress is understood
• Insights from the speaker's own research
• Questions about current ways of supporting teenagers

Miranda Garcia reframes teen stress, drawing on her own research to ask what we're getting wrong about supporting teenagers. Miranda Garcia is a senior at V. Sue Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, whose STEM journey has taken her through Girls Who Code, Young Women in Computing, STEM Mavericks, and Higher Orbits' Go For Launch. She has engineered a seizure detection and alert system using a Raspberry Pi and conducted award-winning research on how breathing techniques affect stressed teenagers, alongside teaching STEM as an Education and Outreach Intern at R4 Creating. This fall she heads to New Mexico State University to study Chemical and Materials Engineering. In her talk, Miranda draws on her own research to ask what we might be getting wrong about how we support teenagers today. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx