School Partners
Participating Schools with Lighting For Literacy STEM curriculum:
Fisher Middle School
Los Gatos Union School District
Principal: Lisa Fraser
Teachers: Kevin Kinsella & Tanya Boyle
From 2013-2015, Fisher Middle School students assembled 120 units for deployment to provide a brighter future for off-grid communities in Mexico, Ghana, Malawi and Zambia teaching science, sustainability and service above self.
Find out more about the challenges of STEM curriculum development.
Students at
Fisher Middle School
Solar kits ready for deployment ,each with a photo of students who assembled the unit
"LFL fits really well into STEM. Global citizenship, sustainability, those are all the things that we have been reinforcing and this one project just encompasses all of them."
-- Lisa Fraser, Fisher Middle School Principal
Leigh High School
Campbell Union High School District
Principal: Pam Hoult
Teachers: Louie Caces & Gina Bui-Le
Lighting for Literacy's STEM program will be incorporated into Leigh's curriculum beginning in the fall of 2015. Students will begin assembling circuit boards and full units for global deployment through the Digital Electronics elective course.
Baylor University School of Engineering
Shelter Project
Baylor University students integrate Lighting for Literacy into their senior mechanical engineering shelter project.
Baylor University shelter project
incorporating LFL solar lighting
New School Projects in Planning:
Joseph George Middle SchoolAlum Rock Elementary School District
Joseph George Middle SchoolAlum Rock Elementary School District
Joseph George Middle SchoolAlum Rock Elementary School District
Participating Schools with student community service projects:
Los Gatos High School
Community Service
Leigh High School
Rotary Interact
Westmont High School
Rotary Interact
Valley Christian High School
Community Service
Windsor High School
Kiwanis Club
Windsor Middle School
4H Club
Windsor Christian Academy
4H Club
Healdsburg Middle School
4H Club
Someone in 6th grade who has an interest in STEM can have a transformational impact at a global level.
--Doug McNeil