{"id":641457,"date":"2013-02-06T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=68979"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:19:27","slug":"visualizing-the-volunteers-of-tedxtehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641457","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the volunteers of TEDxTehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68981 aligncenter\" alt=\"TEDxTehran-main\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/tedxtehran-main.jpg?w=900\"   \/>At <a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtehran.ir\/\">TEDxTehran<\/a>, one volunteer is a gold medal swimmer. Another is a personal chef. Of the volunteers for this event, which will take place on February 14, 75% are bilingual. Meanwhile, 30% speak three languages.<\/p>\n<p>Organizer Sara Mohammadi decided to create a visualization, below, of the TEDxTehran volunteers because the process of interviewing them was so inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What was amazing and overwhelming was the diversity of our volunteer applicants,&#8221; she says. &#8220;There was so much passion in every single one of the 60 interviews that we did \u2026 It left a lasting impression on me about the untapped potential of Iranian youth and their willingness to create. I just wanted to give some color and a voice to all those people who applied as volunteers, who came to for Tehran interviews &#8212; some taking trains from other cities &#8212; and also to underline that TEDxTehran is only made possible because of a group of local Iranians who are volunteering their time, skill and energy for a non-profit cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below, see the infographic for this event, as well as some very cool speaker posters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtehran.ir\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68985 aligncenter\" alt=\"TEDxTehran-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/tedxtehran-poster.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtehran.ir\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68984 aligncenter\" alt=\"TEDxTehran3\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/tedxtehran3.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtehran.ir\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68982 aligncenter\" alt=\"TEDxTehran2\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/tedxtehran2.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtehran.ir\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68983 aligncenter\" alt=\"TEDxTehran1\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/tedxtehran1.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/68979\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/68979\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=68979&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/DTsMZ0V0td0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At TEDxTehran, one volunteer is a gold medal swimmer. Another is a personal chef. Of the volunteers for this event, which will take place on February 14, 75% are bilingual. Meanwhile, 30% speak three languages. Organizer Sara Mohammadi decided to create a visualization, below, of the TEDxTehran volunteers because the process of interviewing them was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}