Free talks for middle & high schools
Spotting fake posts, locking down accounts, taming the algorithm — a 45-minute session taught by two high schoolers who actually live on these apps. No lectures, no "kids these days."
← yes, actually free. no catch, no budget cycle.
Aiden
Neil
that's us — co-founders, juniors, 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
45 minutes, fitted to your bell schedule, in person across DFW or virtual anywhere. Discussion-driven, with live examples from the platforms your students are on right now.
we never say "delete your apps" — promise
Request the principal's one-pagerEvery school has heard an adult explain the internet to teenagers. This is what happens when the message comes from the row behind them.
We use the same apps, saw the same viral posts, and speak the same language — 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.
Trusted by educators
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Leads the misinformation and critical-thinking half of the talk — he's reverse-image-searched more fake celebrity quotes than he'd like to admit. A high schooler and aspiring electrical engineer who's seen firsthand how easily the internet's darker corners reach young people. Climbs, games, and builds hardware; brings the same focus to making sure students learn this before the internet teaches them the hard way.
Covers privacy, scams, and account lockdowns, 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.
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 ↗
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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.
Middle and high school. We adjust the examples and pacing — 6th graders and juniors get different versions of the same talk.
Either. We've done auditoriums and single classrooms; smaller groups get more discussion, bigger ones more demos.
Just a projector and 45 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.