SUPERCHARGE is an after-school STEM program wrapping up its first year in four Chicago high schools. The goal of SUPERCHARGE is to give students experiences with STEM, specifically with robotics, automation, and green energies, that build their interest and confidence. Students attend the club for 90 minutes each week where they work through sets of activities that build skills with connections to green energies and environmental justice. Activity sets culminate in an authentic project each spring where students build a project that lets them explore a facet of the environmental landscape of their communities and the world more broadly. Faculty in the Department of Technology and the College of Education at Illinois State University collaborate with teachers and four community-based organizations from across the city of Chicago in this project. The purpose of those collaborations are to design activities that give students authentic experiences that are culturally sustaining. Teachers in SUPERCHARGE are each full-time faculty in the schools where the clubs take place. As facilitators, they learn alongside the students and position students as problem solvers. The design of units of activities each year are reflective of students’ communities and intended to help situate them as community members with skills and expertise and who understand sustainability challenges and solutions more deeply.