We’re high schoolers, and we run the whole thing.

A teenager in the Bay Area has labs, mentors, and parts money within walking distance. A teenager with the same drive in Lagos or Dhaka usually has none of it. We started Green Silicon Valley in 2021 because that gap felt fixable. Not with speeches, but with kits, teachers, and money that actually shows up.

So we run free, hands-on build days at partner schools, taught live by teenagers. Every student wires real parts, and the $40 air-quality kit goes home with them. When a student keeps going after the workshop ends, we pair them with a mentor and back their project through the pitch competition with a grant up to $1,500: half on signing, half at a working demo.

Everything we run is free to students, and nobody on the team draws a salary. The person at the front of the room is barely older than the students in it. That proximity is the point.