Conference Schedule
Zoom links coming soon!
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks
A quick introduction to the 7th annual Students For Green High Schools conference from the Los Altos High School Green Team.
9:25 AM
Meet & Greet
Get to know your fellow greenies, exchange contacts, and have a little chat to get your gears turning!
9:50 AM
Keynote Speakers
Hear from two wonderful speakers: Max Wilcox on Electric Vehicles & Charging and Ravi Thakkar on Plant-based Meat.
10:50 AM
Rapid-fire Questions
Put your problem-solving and brainstorming skills to the test with fast-paced questions and short discussions in breakout rooms.
11:20 AM
Club Panelists
Got any questions for your fellow conference-goers? Now's the time to ask about other schools' environmental projects, advice, and anything else!
12:00 PM
Reflection Period
Now that your brain is buzzing with ideas, meet with your own club/organization to see how you can create change in your own communities and schools.
12:20 PM
Closing
We're so sad to see you go :( After a few closing remarks, you'll be on your way to making our world a greener place!
Keynote Speakers
Max Wilcox
Powerflex
Keynote: Electric Vehicles & Charging
Max grew up in the Los Altos School District and was an active member of the environmental club while in attendance there. He has remained in the Bay Area since graduating from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has spent the last 8 years working in the electric vehicle industry, first at Tesla and now at PowerFlex. Max has been focusing specifically on electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the past three years in an effort to help catalyze the adoption of electric vehicles, an effort he has been passionate about since his time in the environmental club many years ago!
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Ravi Thakkar
Impossible Foods
Keynote: Plant-based Meat
Ravi Thakkar is Vice President of Product Management at Impossible Foods, creators of the award-winning Impossible Burger. Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues. Previously, Ravi was at Apple and served as iPhone Product Manager in its Worldwide Product Marketing division. He has also held a variety of product leadership roles at Motorola. He holds an Executive MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelors in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ravi and his wife, Vishruti, live in Silicon Valley.
Prizes
Raffles will be held throughout the conference, so stick around 'til the end!
One lucky winner will receive their own cherry tomato growing kit!
Three lucky conference-goers will receive one kitchen herb growing kit!
Two lucky greenies will receive their own flower growing kit!
All six prizes will also come with a 4Ocean beaded bracelet! Every bracelet purchased funds the removal of one pound of trash from the ocean and coastlines.
