students · mentors · the team

Three ways in.

Students teach the build days, mentors get one builder to a working demo, and the team runs the org itself. Pick a door. A real person reads every form on this page.

01Students

$0 tuition · any country

Teach a build day, or host one.

Our workshops are taught by student teachers, live over video, during class time. If that could be you, this is your form. If you want one at your school, it is also your form.

The job: Live build days over video, in a scripted duo, so nobody stands alone at the front. We hand you the curriculum and the build.
The bar: A webcam and a few hours a week. Not experience. You teach a couple of steps ahead of your students, and you prep before each session.
The payoff: Real teaching experience, volunteer hours, and one true thing to point to on a college application.
Schools: Teachers use the second tab on the form. Same program, $0 tuition, any country.

Volunteer as a teen teacher. Run live build days for classrooms, in a scripted duo. You need a webcam and a few hours a week, not experience.

Not sure which tab you are? Email greensiliconvalley27@gmail.com and we’ll sort it out.

02Mentors

applications open all year

Full name

Your age

Our peer-mentor program is for teens. If you're 18 or older we'll route you to our adult advisor track instead. You're still welcome to help.

What have you built?

The strongest signal you can teach is something you've actually shipped. A project, with a link if you have one: code, hardware, a robot, an app.

Resume or background(optional)

Optional, and separate from the project above. Paste a short background or drop a link to your resume, GitHub, or portfolio if you have one.

What can you teach in?

The languages, frameworks, and tools you know well enough to teach a beginner.

A student's sensor reads fine over USB but gives garbage values on battery. Walk us through how you'd help them debug it, what you'd check first, and why.

There's no trick. We want to see how you think and how you'd explain it to a student. A sentence or two is plenty.

A real person reads every application. Mentoring earns you volunteer hours, real teaching experience, and something genuine to point to on a college application. You teach even when there’s no kit money, so there’s always a place for a strong mentor.

One mentor, one builder.

Our standout students pitch a build, get funded, and have to show a working demo. A mentor is the one who gets them there: check-ins, getting them unstuck, honest feedback on the build. The application leads with what you’ve made, because the work has to back the claim.

It’s teenagers mentoring teenagers. If you’re 18 or older, the same form routes you to our adult advisor track. And mentors teach even when there’s no kit money, so a strong application always has somewhere to go.

The builds carry real money

The top pitch grant on a build you’d guide. Half on signing, half at a working demo.

03The team

an answer within a week

Teenagers run this org.

Someone writes the curriculum, chases the grants, designs the site, and books the schools abroad. Here, that someone is a student. Membership is a working seat with real deadlines, not a certificate, and what you make ships to real classrooms.

Anyone can apply, any time. Middle schoolers are welcome: you start on the member track and take bigger roles once you’re in high school.

What happens to your application

01applyany grade, 6th through a gap year
02reada real person reads it
03decidean answer within a week
04start8th grade and below join the member track

Full name

Grade level

School

Where do you want to work?

Curriculum, fundraising, design, building, international outreach. Wherever you'd add the most.

What have you actually shipped?

The strongest thing on a young résumé is something you finished: a project, a club you ran, code you wrote, an event you pulled off.

How did you hear about GSV?

Who referred you?(optional)

If a GSV member sent you, paste their member link or ID. Skip if not.

We read every application and a real person reaches out within a week. Younger applicants are welcome: middle schoolers join on the member track and step into bigger roles in high school.

04Everything else

greensiliconvalley27@gmail.com

Not filling out a form today?

You can still move the work. A $40 kit puts one build in a student’s hands, and the programs page shows exactly where it goes.

Fund a kit See how it works

Teach a build day, or host one.

Our workshops are taught by student teachers, live over video, during class time. If that could be you, this is your form. If you want one at your school, it is also your form.

The job

Live build days over video, in a scripted duo, so nobody stands alone at the front. We hand you the curriculum and the build.

The bar

A webcam and a few hours a week. Not experience. You teach a couple of steps ahead of your students, and you prep before each session.

The payoff

Real teaching experience, volunteer hours, and one true thing to point to on a college application.

Schools

Teachers use the second tab on the form. Same program, $0 tuition, any country.

One mentor, one builder.

The builds carry real money

The top pitch grant on a build you’d guide. Half on signing, half at a working demo.

Teenagers run this org.

Anyone can apply, any time. Middle schoolers are welcome: you start on the member track and take bigger roles once you’re in high school.