{"id":465493,"date":"2026-09-16T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465493\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:50:29","slug":"silicon-valley-youth-climate-action-feels-impact-of-its-programs-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465493\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action feels impact of its programs \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impact Awards<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action (SVYCA) has been named a 2026 Nonprofit Impact Award recipient by the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p>SVYCA\u2019s goal is to train and empower the next generation of climate leaders. Over the past several years, the student-led nonprofit has grown\u00a0to more than 150 active youth members, expanded its programs and partnerships, and created more opportunities for young people across the South Bay to engage directly in climate education, advocacy and community action.<\/p>\n<p>SVYCA will be celebrating with the other 2026 Nonprofit Impact Award recipients at\u00a0the council\u2019s \u201cBe Our Guest!\u201d gala on Thursday, Oct. 22. For more information on what the nonprofit is doing locally, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svyouthclimateaction.org\/campbell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.svyouthclimateaction.org\/campbell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meritorious recognition<\/p>\n<p>Five Westmont High School seniors were among about 16,000 high school students in the graduating class of 2027 \u2014 less than 1% of U.S. seniors \u2014named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.<\/p>\n<p>The semifinalists, announced on Sept. 9, qualified based on their scores on the Preliminary SAT. About 95 percent are expected to attain finalist standing on the strength of an application detailing academic performance, participation in activities, employment and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>About half the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, to be announced in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>The semifinalists from Westmont are Kristin J. Anthony, Ayaan A. Raza, Eleni Sismanis, Peihan Yu and Ellie M. Zhou.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Impact Awards Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action (SVYCA) has been named a 2026 Nonprofit Impact Award recipient by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3415,184,7,185,443,643,23,5466,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":["post-465493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-awards","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-campbell","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-local-news","tag-nonprofits","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}