San José State University, in partnership with the Bay Area K-16 Collaborative and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation, launched a first-of-its-kind project-based learning pilot in Spring 2025 that connected engineering students with AWS, Texas Instruments, and Mainspring Energy on real-world, career-connected projects.

Texas Instruments welcomed 80 middle and high school students to its Great America Campus for an immersive Industry Day designed to ignite interest in STEM careers.

90 Black college students and supporting faculty and staff from across the Bay Area gathered at HP’s historic Palo Alto campus for Black Students Day (BSD), an event grounded in HP’s long-standing commitment to Black professionals and communities.

Over 50 students from Hayward High School and Milpitas Middle College High School stepped into the world of healthcare through hands-on training, personal conversations, and transformative storytelling at Washington Health (WH).

Twenty engineering and computer science students, faculty, and staff from City College of San Francisco (CCSF) visited clean energy company Mainspring Energy as part of the Bay Area K-16 Collaborative’s worksite visit series.

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation was privileged to facilitate an event for 30 engineering and computer science students and staff from Chabot College and NetApp, a global leader in data storage and cloud computing.

Twenty students, primarily from the engineering department at Evergreen Valley Community College, explored Texas Instruments (TI) in Sunnyvale, California.

Working with SVLG and the HP Black Employee Resource Group, the Bay Area K-16 Collaborative facilitated a worksite visit for seventeen software engineering and business students from San José State University.