Archived Events
Youth Leadership Academy
SVYCA is Empowering Tomorrow’s Climate Leaders Today through its Youth Climate Leadership Academy. Our first-ever academy in 2025 was a huge success! For three weeks in the summer, youth learn everything they need to know about climate change, movement building, community organizing, and advocacy.
Youth Leadership Summits
The SVYCA hosts a Youth Climate Summit each year that hosts compelling keynote speakers, engaging panel presentations, and insightful workshops. Below you can find links to recording, presentations, and content from these earlier summits.
Video Contests
SVYCA has hosted several video contest in collaboration with local partners. We recognized the importance of empowering youth to tell their stories and the important skills they can learn by working with others on such a complex project. Check out the links to the contests and videos below.
Nature-based Video Contest - held in partnership with Santa Clara County Open Space Authority
Climate Smart Video Contest - in collaboration with CreaTV, Climate Smart San Jose, and the Tenacious Group
Candidate Forums
The views of our elected officials is extremely important in ensuring that we have a bright and secure future. SVYCA has a history of organizing candidate forums at all levels of government so that candidates can share and clarify the views and potential voters can ask important questions.
Earth Day Events
For most members of SVYCA, Earth Day is every day, but we do like to do something a bit special every April.