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 abroad, taught live by teenagers. Every student works with real parts — the $40 kit has an air-quality sensor in it, and it 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. The organization is led day-to-day by high schoolers, with adult advisors on governance and finance, and every dollar we raise is tracked in the open.