Renewable power capacity added worldwide in 2025
Powering Curiosity.
Energizing the Future.
Energize Youth brings free, hands-on clean-energy workshops to students ages 10–14 at schools, libraries, camps, and community organizations. Each session turns core science into something students can see, test, and understand.
WHY RENEWABLE ENERGY MATTERS
The Transition Is Growing
Renewable energy is expanding at record speed, but growing electricity demand and rising temperatures mean progress must continue. Energize Youth helps students understand the science behind that transition and see how engineering can turn cleaner ideas into practical systems for homes, schools, and communities.
Share of new global power capacity supplied by renewables
Total renewable power capacity operating worldwide
2015–2025 were the eleven warmest years on record
Completed
Energy Conservation Campaign
From October 19–25, students, families, and community members signed 102 pledges to save energy through practical everyday choices:
- Turning off unused lights
- Powering down computers and electronics
- Unplugging chargers when they are not in use
- Avoiding unnecessary vehicle idling
- Carpooling or sharing rides
- Using natural light whenever possible
102CONSERVATION PLEDGES SIGNED
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Energize Youth Workshop Schedule
Every confirmed workshop and presentation, organized by month.
15Total sessions12 scheduled dates
July
3 sessionsGero Park Rec Camp, Millburn, NJ
10:00 AM
Piezoelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
2:00–3:00 PM
Piezoelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
4:00–5:00 PM
Piezoelectricity
August
6 sessionsBoys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
2:00–3:00 PM
Triboelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
4:00–5:00 PM
Triboelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
2:00–3:00 PM
Electromagnetic induction
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
4:00–5:00 PM
Electromagnetic induction
Code Wiz, Edison, NJ
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Electromagnetic induction
Millburn Library
2:00 PM
Piezoelectricity
September
1 sessionBoys & Girls Club, Union, NJ, Activity Fair
5:30–7:30 PM
Outreach event
October
5 sessionsWoodbridge Library (Inman Branch), NJ
4:30 PM
Triboelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
4:00–5:00 PM
Electromagnetic induction
Woodbridge Library (Inman Branch), NJ
4:30 PM
Piezoelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
4:00–5:00 PM
Triboelectricity
Boys & Girls Club, Union, NJ
4:00–5:00 PM
Electromagnetic induction
WORKSHOP OPTIONS
Three Ways to Discover Energy
Choose a workshop to understand the science, test the concept through a guided activity, and apply what you learn to a practical engineering challenge.
WORKSHOP 01Request this workshop
Piezoelectricity
Intro
Students explore how certain materials produce an electrical response when they are pressed, bent, or vibrated.
Hands-on activity
Students press a piezoelectric tile and compare how different amounts of force change its output.
Game
Apply piezoelectric technology to a real-world floor tile and decide where footstep energy could be collected most effectively.
Press and hold the tile
Voltage · up to 3.5 V0.0 V
LEARNING IN ACTION
More Than a Science Demonstration
Each workshop is built around guided experimentation. Students make a prediction, test real materials, compare results, and use what they observe to improve the next attempt.
Observe → Test → Adjust → Try again
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Explore the Full Program
View the one-page Energize Youth overview for a concise explanation of the program, workshops, and educational activities.
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Energize Youth Program Overview
A one-page overview of the three Energize Youth workshops, their scientific concepts, and their hands-on activities.
About Me
I'm Vismay Patel, a senior at J.P. Stevens High School with a passion for engineering and sustainable energy. After helping develop a floor tile that generates electricity from footsteps, I realized I wanted to do more than build technology—I wanted to inspire younger students to explore engineering themselves.
That led me to found Energize Youth, a student-led initiative making clean-energy education accessible through free, hands-on workshops. I've organized more than 15 workshops, reaching over 450 students through interactive experiments and demonstrations.
“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.”
Seymour Papert
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