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$40 puts real hardware in a student’s hands.
Students never pay tuition — donors are why it’s free. Every dollar lands in a public ledger you can read.
$40 is a kit. $1,500 is a funded build.
Each amount is a thing we can name, not a price point.
- $40
One build kit
Parts for one young builder to ship something real.
- $120
A full pathway
Kit, curriculum, and a term of mentorship for one student.
- $500
A classroom workshop
A hands-on build day for a whole classroom abroad.
- $1,500
A funded pitch project
Back a standout team from idea to working build.
We’ll email you when your kit lands.
Your money becomes parts, the parts reach a student, and you hear about it — that’s the deal. If you back a pitch grant, you hear when the build demos too.
Green Silicon Valley is a registered 501(c)(3), so your donation is tax-deductible and your receipt arrives by email. Checkout runs on Stripe’s hosted page — we never see or store your card.
The kit
What your $40 buys.
One air-quality monitor a student builds and keeps. Every part, every price.
Drawn from the real parts list. The numbers match the manifest.
- 01$6
ESP32 microcontroller
the tiny computer that runs it
- 02$14
PM2.5 particulate sensor
measures the air you breathe
- 03$5
Breadboard + jumper wires
snaps the circuit together, no soldering
- 04$7
OLED readout + LEDs
shows the live air reading
- 05$8
Battery, case, small parts
so it runs on a desk, not just a lab bench
That’s the whole kit.
$40