Silicon Valley Clean Energy awards $70,000 with the Student Sponsorship Program
Sunnyvale, CA — This year, the Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) annual Student Sponsorship Program, formerly known as the Education Fund, is sponsoring $70,000 between thirteen student groups across Silicon Valley for innovative approaches to climate action and awareness. The student-led projects highlight a range of solutions from creative to tactical, all with a focus on minimizing their communities’ carbon footprint.
Now in its fifth year, the Sponsorship Program empowers diverse and talented student groups to embrace creativity and public engagement through their sustainability efforts. The selected teams comprise students from elementary, middle, and high schools in eight SVCE communities.
The awarded student teams and their projects are as follows:
- Color for Charity (Cupertino): Distributing environmental coloring booklets to schools and organizations to encourage adopting green practices.
- Climate Chronicles Podcast (Cupertino): Creating a podcast that uses storytelling as a tool for education, advocacy, and engagement.
- Tino Eco Civic Engagement Competition (Cupertino): Expanding on the previous year’s Carbon Footprint Competition to further encourage the community to come up with creative solutions for decarbonization.
- Cupertino High School Safe Routes to School (Cupertino): Creating a Fix-it Pit for bike repairs and hosting a Bike 4 Boba community bike event to incentivize clean transportation.
- Ecovalley Renewable Energy Science Bowl (Saratoga): Hosting a competition for students to dive deeper into renewable energy topics and empower others to take action in their communities.
- Ecovalley Helios Garden Festival (Saratoga): Creating a mobile solar light demonstration for community events to show the beauty behind solar-lit festival spaces to underserved groups.
- Ecovalley Clothing X-Change (Saratoga): Reducing carbon emissions through clothing recycling, developing a “carbon money,” and an upcycled fashion show.
- Catalogue Zine (Sunnyvale): Creating a sustainability magazine to communicate community sentiments towards climate action.
- EcoQuest App Development and Solar Charger (Sunnyvale): Building a solar-powered device charger and developing an app that will engage users in challenges that help reduce carbon emissions and generate clean energy.
- Acts4Unity Electric Tankless Water Heater (Los Altos): Designing an electric tankless battery-operated water heater.
- 4-H Club Battery Safety (Morgan Hill, Gilroy): Conducting battery and clean energy education outreach, researching EV batteries, and creating a fire detection prototype.
- CP Mentorship Clean Energy in Art (Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Milpitas): Hosting clean energy-themed art workshops, competitions, exhibitions, concerts, and summer camps across Silicon Valley.
- E-Waste Exchange Program (Mountain View): Facilitating an E-waste exchange program that partners with local stores for coupons as well as hosting educational workshops.
Projects were chosen through a competitive application process. Students will use their awarded funding to execute their projects over the remainder of the 2025 school year.
Since 2018, SVCE has reinvested over $370,000 in youth program. View past projects and cohorts at www.svcleanenergy.org/students/sponsorships/.
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About Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Silicon Valley Clean Energy is a not-for-profit, community-owned agency providing electricity from renewable and clean sources to more than 275,000 residential and commercial customers in 13 Santa Clara County jurisdictions. As a public agency, net revenues are returned to the community to keep rates competitive and promote clean energy programs. Silicon Valley Clean Energy is advancing innovative solutions to fight climate change by decarbonizing the grid, transportation, and buildings. Learn more at SVCleanEnergy.org.
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