Free talks for elementary, middle & high schools
Spotting fake posts, locking down accounts, taming the algorithm — 45–60 minutes, in two versions built for grades K–8 and 9–12, taught by high schoolers a few years ahead of them. No lectures, no "kids these days."
← yes, actually free. no catch, no budget cycle.
Neil
that's me — founder, junior, chronically online (professionally)
Students spend hours a day online — telling them to simply use it less misses the point. Our mission is to make every one of those hours safer and sharper: browsing securely, protecting personal privacy, recognizing online dangers before they escalate, managing feeds intentionally, and questioning what shows up on the screen instead of absorbing it — with practical moves they can make on their own phones the same afternoon.
Which settings matter, who really sees your posts, and a 5-minute account lockdown.
Reverse-image search, doctored screenshots, and the tells of a made-up story.
Who made this, why, and what it wants from you — before you like, share, or believe.
Training the algorithm on purpose so it works for you — not on you.
The presentation
Both tracks teach the same nine core skills, then split at the end: grades K–8 add device habits, gaming safety, and malware; grades 9–12 add the messaging and explicit-images material. Each runs 45–60 minutes, fitted to your bell schedule, in person across DFW or virtual anywhere. Discussion-driven, with live examples and settings they can change the same afternoon.
we never say "delete your apps" — promise
Request the principal's one-pagerEvery school has heard an adult explain the internet to students. This is what happens when it comes from someone a few years ahead of them instead.
We grew up on the same internet and watched the same things go viral — so it lands as advice, not a lecture.
No invoice, no product, no data collection. We're students on a mission, not a vendor in a sales cycle.
Audit a privacy setting, reverse-image-search a viral post, reshape a feed — concrete moves, not warnings.
Built on published media-literacy research and how platforms actually work — recommendation systems, engagement incentives, dark patterns.
Online sessions
Live, open-to-anyone versions of the talk — for parents, students, and teachers who can't get us into a building. Free to join, same as everything else we do.
Nothing on the calendar just yet — we're lining up the first few now. Tell us to ping you when the first one is up.
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Presents both decks and runs the live demos — including the one where a "harmless" quiz reads out half your profile. A high schooler, researcher, and developer whose work spans brain-computer interface research, algorithmic trading, and mobile apps, giving him a close-up view of how platforms are engineered to capture attention. Big believer in settings menus.
A high schooler with a solid understanding of online safety, helping make the internet a safer space for everybody.
Tell us your school and a rough date — we'll reply within two school days with times that work around our own class schedules.
or just email us: contactus@scroll-smart.com ↗
Already have a school login? Pick a time on our live calendar →
Contact
Tell us who you are and we'll start the email for you — subject line and details already filled in. Booking a presentation for a school? Use the form above instead.
Yes. No invoice, no sponsorship pitch, no data collection. We're students doing this because we think it matters.
Grades K–12, as two separate talks. Both cover the same nine core skills, taught the same way, and then diverge. The K–8 track adds the things that actually fill a younger student’s day — iPad and phone rules, gaming and voice chat, and viruses, including the “free Robux” offers they meet every week. The 9–12 track is the only one that covers messaging and explicit images.
It’s the same nine skills in both tracks, and that’s deliberate. Plenty of students well before 6th grade already have YouTube, Roblox or a game account with a login and a chat box, and the habits carry straight over — checking who can see what you post, not reusing a password, spotting an offer that’s too good to be true. The K–8 track then adds what’s specific to them: device rules, gaming and voice chat, and viruses. If a student hasn’t met a given app yet, they meet the habit before the app.
Either. We've done auditoriums and single classrooms; smaller groups get more discussion, bigger ones more demos.
Just a projector and 45–60 minutes. We bring the slides, the examples, and the discussion prompts.
Yes — anywhere. In-person visits are limited to the DFW area around our own school days.
Our syllabus is public — request the one-pager above — and a faculty advisor reviews everything we present.