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The Bard's College | Nolan Wadsworth & Calder Schweitzer | TEDxGuelphU

623 views · Published 27 February 2018 · 17:30 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Nolan and Calder uses Dungeons & Dragons to teach students life skills. Nolan Wadsworth is a Third Year International Development Student at the University of Guelph, and the co-founder of The Bard’s College. He is an avid writer, traveller and dungeon master. Nolan has been fascinated with the powers of collaborative storytelling ever since he discovered roleplaying games. For him, sitting around a table with friends in a far-off realm of Beholders and Wizards, provides every person with an opportunity to examine themselves through the threads of the stories they weave together.

Calder Schweitzer is a third year student at the University of Guelph, studying Wildlife Biology and Conservation as a 2015 McCall MacBain Loran Scholar. He is also the co-founder of The Bard’s College, a non-profit start-up based in Guelph that aims to use Dungeons and Dragons and similar tabletop roleplaying games as a vessel to help high school students practice teamwork and social skills. Calder started playing Dungeons and Dragons in the fall of 2016, and now is a player in one campaign and a Dungeon Master in another, playing through an original story in both cases. Calder believes that playing Dungeons and Dragons has helped him to build strong friendships, develop his social skills in negotiation and conversation, and approach problems with many perspectives in mind. He hopes to pass along his enthusiasm for RPGs to others, so that they may reap the benefits of playing them just as he has. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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