B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

1B - 1:15PM

  1. Speaker 1


    “Havin' money's not everything, not havin' it is” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.” - Nina Simone

    “By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.” - Mark Twain

  2. Speaker 2


    “For ever ever? For ever ever? Ever ever?” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “if you don’t tell them [people] how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.” - Nina Simone

    “Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”

    Cicero

  3. Speaker 3


    “Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.: - Nina Simone

    “In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” - John Churton Collins

  4. Speaker 4


    “But is it cool to rap about gold if I told the world I copped it from Ghana and Mali?” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “You use up everything you’ve got trying to give everybody what they want.” - Nina Simone

    “Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.” - Chilo

  5. Speaker 5


    “Told 'em I finished school, and I started my own business. They say, 'Oh you graduated? No, I decided I was finished” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” - Florence Nightingale

    “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

    Abraham Lincoln

  6. Speaker 6


    “I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words”- Florence Nightingale

    “Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” - Og Mandino

2B - 2:30PM

  1. Speaker 1


    “You tellin' me if my grandma was in the NBA right now she'd be okay?” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” - Nora Ephron

    “You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.” - J. K. Rowling

  2. Speaker 2


    “Some people graduate, but we still stupid”- Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.” - Michelle Obama

    “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” - William Arthur Ward

  3. Speaker 3


    “Everything I'm not, made me everything I am”- Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.” - Audre Lorde

    “In adversity remember to keep an even mind.” - Horace

  4. Speaker 4


    “Reality is catching up with me, taking my inner child, I'm fighting for custody”- Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.” - Rania Al-Abdullah

    “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” - Anne Bradstreet

  5. Speaker 5


    “Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes”- B. Smith

    “I’m an academic. It’s publish or perish.”- Daniel J. Bernstein

  6. Speaker 6


    “Take the chlorine out our conversation” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “If you don’t risk anything, you risk anything more”- Erica Jong

    “The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers”- Richard Hamming

B Finals - 3:45PM

  1. Speaker 1


    “Lost in translation with a whole nation, they say I was the abomination of Obama's nation, well that's a pretty bad way to start the conversation”- Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement”- Helen Keller. 

    “Information is the resolution of uncertainty”- Claude Shannon

  2. Speaker 2


    “No more living for the culture, we nobody’s slave” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being”- Diane van Furstenberg

    “Time makes fools of us all”- E.T. Bell

  3. Speaker 3


    “I was looking at the 'Gram and I don't even like likes” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful”- Malala Yousafzai

    “Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries”- David Hilbert

  4. Speaker 4


    “If you woke, then wake up” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “Knowing what must be done does away with fear”- Rosa Parks

    “I hope we’ll be able to solve these problems before we leave”-Paul Erdos

  5. Speaker 5


    “If that's all the love you have, that's all you got” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity”- Amelia Earhart

    “Say what you know, do what you must, come what may”- Sofia Kovalevskaya

  6. Speaker 6


    “They all say they real 'til it's time to appraise it” - Vice Presidential Nominee Kanye Omari West

    “We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes” - Rania Al-Abdullah

    “The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another”- Marcus du Sautoy