On September 9th, 2020, the skies in San Francisco literally turned orange. Wildfires had spread across the Bay Area very rapidly, and I realized that any location is vulnerable to climate change.
This really catalyzed PoweringTomorrow.org and our mission to help stop the climate crisis. PoweringTomorrow.org is inspiring the next generation of green energy leaders through our free afterschool hands-on climate and energy education program.
In creating the curriculum, I really wanted to make the workshop fun and exciting and to include a lot of science experiments. Because most of the existing climate and energy education programs around the world give students fear rather than hope and our organization helps to flip that narrative.
I think that it is very important that we teach students from under-resourced communities, because these are the students who are the most impacted by climate change. And through a lot of hard work and determination, we currently teach students from over 25 schools, and we’ve offered the program to over 3,000 students.
I’m so happy and excited that we’ve expanded our program to so many students, and I’m looking forward to inspiring even more green energy advocates.