Self Education and the Dropout Stigma, Andrew Morris, TEDx Youth Columbia SC

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In 2010, Andrew dropped out of high school to pursue a lesscommon career path in cyber security, and he will be discussing how learning, passion, discipline, and failure have related to his own experiences. Andrew is a consultant at an NYCbased information security company and a proud native South Carolinian. In 2010, Andrew dropped out of high school to pursue a lesscommon career path in cyber security. Since then, he has been hired by some of the largest international corporations around the world to pose as an attacker, hack into their computer networks, and improve their security by recommending how to how fix the security holes he identified. When Andrew is not hacking computers, he is traveling, playing whatever instrument is closest to him, wrestling with his dog, or trying understand what his dreams mean. Andrew can be contacted by: Email: Twitter: andrewmorris Website morris. g