Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was delivered on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. Over 450 Carnegie Mellon students, staff members, and friends of Pausch attended the lecture, leaving only standing room as this was more than the auditorium could hold. Pausch later commented about this in an interview, saying "A couple of hundred people in a room, looking and listening and laughing and applauding – hopefully at the appropriate times – that gives a lot of validation to my kids that a lot of people believe in this, and a lot of people who knew me believe that I did my best to try to live this way." The first introduction of the speech as well as the series of lectures was given by Indira Nair, the Vice Provost for Education at Carnegie Mellon. Nair first explained the university's aforementioned lecture series called "Journeys", in which eight more professors from Carnegie Mellon would share their insights on their professional and personal experiences over the years.
Metro Maryland Youth For Christ
Since 1990, over 75,000 students and youth workers have attended Metro Maryland Youth For Christ’s conferences held in Ocean City, Maryland. The ALIVE Middle School and IMPACT High School conferences have provided hundreds of churches and youth groups with high energy, inspirational weekends featuring outstanding national Christian motivational speakers, leadership trainers, musicians and performers. Among the speakers, musicians and performers: Darrell Scott, Bob Lenz, Joel Sonnenberg, Greg Speck, Mark Yaconelli, Steve Fitzhugh, Reggie Dabbs, Lori Salierno, Leonard Sweet, Josh Weidmann, Sharon Hersch, Brennan Manning, Robbie Seay Band, Kutless, Pocket Full of Rocks, Lincoln Brewster, Audio Adrenaline, Fusebox, Sandtown Children’s Choir, Skillet, David Crowder Band, Jars of Clay, Coastalrise, Jennifer Knapp, Supertones, Big Tent Revival, onetimeblind, Jesus Painter, Curt Cloninger, Taylor Mason, Dave the Horn Guy, Skit Guys, and more.