EmPower Silicon Valley Short-Film Competition
Our climate is changing, but a clean energy future is on the horizon. By working together, we can help ensure that our future is a clean and climate-friendly one. We gathered student stories to energize positive change.

Youth Climate Perspectives
In Spring 2022, Silicon Valley Clean Energy invited high school students to share their stories and solutions to climate change for $20,000 in scholarship awards. Check out the winning short films below!
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Xinpei Lu
Cupertino High School

Elise Chiu & Nishika Gorlaf
Monta Vista High School

Hernan Maldonado & Abhik Das
Monta Vista High School

Alyssa Hwang
Cupertino High School
Honorable Mention Awards
Monarch Butterfly Effect
Maia Shama, Kai Otsuka & George Hu
Saratoga High School
The Silicon Green Vision
Ava Mineishi & Seeun Kim
Branham and Fremont High School
Silicon Valley’s Clean Future
Om Shastri, Julio Casal & Macha Karpov
Los Gatos High School
Silicon Valley: A (Clean Energy) Future Worth Investing In
Christopher Li, Emily Chen & Ben Richardson
Monta Vista & Lynbrook High School