Impact Portfolio
A student-led nonprofit building technology for environmental education and community action
Our Journey
Founded EcoQuest Foundation
Student-led nonprofit focused on environmental education through technology
Built 4 Educational Games
Guardians of the Green, Ocean Cleanup, Recycling Hero, Carbon Quest
First Community Cleanups
Launched our community cleanups at Seal Beach and Cerritos-area parks
Launched Interactive Apps
Wildfire Watch, Oceanaware Guardian, and MindMirror web applications
National Competition Entries
Congressional App Challenge, Blue Ocean Competition
Published Student Research
Original articles on monarch butterflies, ocean plastic, and wildfire prevention
Blue Ocean Top 500 Finalist
MindMirror named a Top 500 Finalist among 23,000+ students from 173 countries
Launched GreenLedger
A civic sustainability dashboard turning Cerritos’s city budget into interactive environmental action
Featured Projects
Interactive web apps our students designed and built
Wildfire Watch
Real-time wildfire monitoring and tracking system providing critical community safety information.
MindMirror
Voice-based depression screening built by students, motivated by research on climate anxiety in young people.
Oceanaware Guardian
Ocean conservation platform raising awareness about marine ecosystems and pollution.
GreenLedger
A civic sustainability dashboard turning Cerritos’s city budget into interactive environmental action for young residents.
Educational Games
Built on live public science data for whatever ZIP code a student enters
Screenshots show Cerritos, CA — your ZIP code draws your own town’s data.
Bioblitz photo © Steven Kurniawidjaja, used under CC BY-NC 4.0 and shown cropped, via iNaturalist.
Storm Drain Detective
Traces your street’s runoff to the sea using the USGS river network
Backyard Bioblitz
Species identification from real iNaturalist records near you
Air Detective
Air-quality forensics on real hourly pollution data
Your Climate Record
Predict, then meet your town’s real 75-year temperature record
Community Impact
Seal Beach Cleanup
Coastal cleanup removing plastic and debris from the shoreline
Prado Park
Park cleanup, pathway restoration, and beautification in Chino, CA
Cerritos Park East
Community park cleanup and beautification
Skills & Capabilities
What our team has learned and demonstrated through this initiative
Technical
Design
Leadership
Research
Recognition & Competitions
2026 Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition
Our MindMirror app was named a Top 500 Finalist in the world's largest virtual pitch competition — with 23,000+ students from 173 countries, endorsed by the creators of Blue Ocean Strategy. MindMirror has since collected data from ~230 research participants recruited through Prolific.
We've put our apps in front of national and international judges through these student competitions:
🏛️ Congressional App Challenge
💡 Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition
Want to Get Involved?
Join our student-led team and make a real impact on environmental education and conservation.