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Last weekend, Austinites came together to experience a powerful and influential day at TEDxAustin. This one-day conference, themed “Beyond Measure,” took place at the Austin Music Hall. CompassLearning hosted the first-ever satellite location for the event here in our Austin office. Thousands applied to attend, but only a few hundred were chosen to hear how people within our community and state are creating change. More than fifty people descended upon CompassLearning to be awakened and inspired, and I was lucky enough to be able to participate.

I wonder — how often do we go about our day moving place to place, seeing aspects of our community that need help, but feel that change or even our ideas for change may be too difficult, let alone impossible? One of the speakers Jason Roberts, a North Oak Cliff resident in Dallas, influenced change within his community with what seems effortless ingenuity and action. His ability to take an idea and act on it, even if it seemed impossible, was inspiring and mesmerizing.