Youth Engagement Impact
We held our first-ever Youth Leadership Academy in July of 2025. The academy ran for three weeks and trained 30+ aspiring youth leaders everything they need to know about climate change, youth advocacy, community organizing.
In early 2025, youth worked with Standford Health’s Dr Lisa Patel to develop videos highlighting the impact of climate change. You can find the videos on here along with additional information about climate and health.
SVYCA’s Green New Year Celebration was an opportunity to highlight the successes for 2023 and outline our plans for continued advocacy into 2024, we heard from SVYCA Executive Director Rohan Pandit, the youth who attended COP28, and got updates about our new ‘Intergenerational Innovation’ program, and efforts among our members to educate others about the climate crisis and advocate for solutions.
Five youth leaders, along with our Executive Director Rohan and Co-Founder Hoi, had the opportunity to attend COP28, learn about innovations at international level, and meet key stakeholders from across the world who share same concerns and are working on toward solutions. Our youth leader Diya provides her perspective,
SVYCA’s 2023 Youth leadership Summit was a resounding success, attended by over 300 attendees, including youth, professionals, industry leaders, elected officials, environmental leaders and other community stakeholders. It was a day of learning, networking and discussion around climate solutions and strategies.
2023 Green Bus tours exposed students and education partners to the emerging green jobs and sustainable solutions. We visited several sites as saw cutting-edge solutions at IDEO (a global design and consulting firm), Crissy Field Center, Mindspring (a clean tech company), the City of Sunnyvale’s new net-zero city hall, and Valley Water Advanced Water Purification.
You can learn about Burlingame High School student Jayden Wan’s experience here.
Organized the 2022 Youth Leadership Summit attended by 200+ attendees to learn about local, state and federal climate policy, emerging green jobs and climate literacy, and discussing effective organizing strategy to empower attendees to engage in climate action
SVYCA’s 2-Day Green Careers Bus Trip for SVYCA youth sponsored by SVCE. On Day 1, we had an inspiring and productive day at Delta Electronics and Google Bay view. On Day 2, we had the privilege of touring Levi’s Stadium and Nuro.
Hosted a virtual Advocacy Training Workshop to teach youth about how to effectively advocate for climate smart policies at the school, city, country, and state level
Hosted Leadership Workshops to equip students with skills and strategies to fight for our planet; topics covered included online team management, effective policy advocacy, and organizing in the digital world
2022, Hosted a Youth Climate Summit with over 200 attendees and guest speakers Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and State Assemblymember Ash Kalra
Organized a virtual Climate Speaker Series with leaders in the climate and environmental space in 2020 and 2021, bringing together environmentalists from across the spectrum to share their insights, including CEOs, policy advocates, and elected officials such as Congressman Ro Khanna
Prepared our community members for the November 2020 election by hosting a series of nonpartisan Candidate Forums focused on legislative solutions to global warming and effective policy making to combat our climate crisis
Created a two-hour climate curriculum for the Fremont Union School District; engaged 8,000+ students, 240+ teachers on climate science, impact, urgency, solutions, careers, civic education and actions
collaborations & partnerships
Monterey CISC Symposium: Our youth spoke on a keynote panel on the importance of climate education and literacy to 1200+ educators and educational leaders from throughout California. We discussed the importance of civic engagement, climate career pathways, and tangible solutions that administrators and teachers could bring back to their home districts and implement.
Partnered with Silicon Valley Youth Climate Strikes to organize the September 2019 strike, a youth-led demonstration that brought together over 2,000 attendees for a march and rally at San Jose City Hall
Co-sponsored and emceed the City of Cupertino’s 2021 Earth and Arbor Day Event speaker series
Hosted a Youth Climate Action Trivia event as part of the City of Sunnyvale's 2021 Gourmet Earth Week
Organized an Earth Day Event in April 2021, co-hosted with the Silicon Valley Democratic Club and the Sunnyvale Democratic Club
Partnered with Silicon Valley Biking Coalition to host a “Bike for Boba” event in 2022 where over 70 people came out to bike and learn about the importance of bike lanes
Spoke at Senator Cortese’s 2022 Earth Month Town Hall about environmental stewardship and clean energy career pathways
Planned, co-sponsored, and presented at a 2022 Environmental Literacy Summit with the Santa Clara County Office of Education