We are on a mission to help the next generation build empowering relationships with technology
100,000+Students reached
100+Schools visited
7Countries
300+Presentations
Our approach
The answer to tech addiction is intention, not abstinence.
Technology is neither inherently good nor bad. While it has the power to addict, distract, and depress, it also has the potential to inform, inspire, and empower. As such, Project Reboot does not seek to get tech-addicted teens off their screens entirely. Instead, it helps students set and adhere to informed intentions for their tech use.
Project Reboot does this by focusing on the three keys to healthy tech use:
Key #1
Mindset
The lens through which students view technology
The program is centered around two ideas:
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You pay for social media with your time. Social media platforms are free because they monetize you. In order to get a good deal out of them you need to figure out what value they add to your life and how much of your time that is worth.
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Your content diet is as important as your nutritional diet. The information you consume on a daily basis influences your attention span, worldview, and skillset. The internet is the greatest learning resource ever created. Students that learn to leverage it will find themselves ahead of the pack.
Key #2
Environment
The external conditions that influence students’ tech use
Whether or not students stick to their intentions is largely a function of environmental factors. Project Reboot helps them redesign their environment in three separate areas:
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Digital: By pushing beyond the default settings on your devices you can reduce distractions, create barriers between work and play, and add friction to scrolling.
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Physical: Small changes such as moving your phone charger out of your bedroom can have a huge impact on your screen time.
3
Social: Students’ tech habits are influenced by their friends and family. Project Reboot spurs conversations about screen time and encourages participants to hold each other accountable to their tech intentions.
Key #3
Habits
Small tweaks that yield big results
Most students aren’t actually addicted to technology. Rather, they are addicted to escaping discomfort by seeking distraction. Given that pulling out a phone and opening social media is the shortest path to distraction we have ever had, that addiction often manifests as screen time, but even if we were to get rid of phones entirely, the underlying problem would still be there.
Project Reboot addresses the problem at its source by focusing on helping students become more intentional, both online and offline. Throughout the program, students learn to cultivate the traits of mindfulness, discipline, resilience, and productivity through simple changes to their daily habits.
Our Story
Project Reboot was piloted as a semester-length course titled “INFO 98: Becoming Tech Intentional.” The course was taught three times to a total of 110 students.
UC Berkeley course begins
August 2021
August 2022
The Mental Wellness Center in Santa Barbara hosts a 3-day Project Reboot workshop with 20 high school students. One of the attendees, Dawson Kelly, would go on to re-launch the UC Berkeley course that started Project Reboot, lead the club at UC Berkeley, and eventually deliver Project Reboot assemblies.
First Workshop at the Santa Barbara Mental Wellness Center
Dino Ambrosi, the founder of Project Reboot, delivers his first TEDx talk at Laguna Blanca School. The talk conveys many of the core ideas of Project Reboot and has been viewed on YouTube over 4,000,000 times.
Project Reboot brings its programming to Europe for the first time, with visits to Institut Le Rosey, the International School of Geneva and Collège du Léman in Switzerland, and the Bavarian International School in Germany.
Project Reboot goes international
The Clearspace microlearning curriculum launches, giving students short daily lessons that help them reset their tech habits.
Clearspace microlearning launches
August 2025
September 2025
The Project Reboot club at UC Berkeley launches and starts gaining traction on campus. Student leaders run phone-free events, collect Side Quests and Youth Perspectives from members, and hold regular meetings, building the playbook that chapters on 13 campuses now follow.
Project Reboot UC Berkeley club launches
Mind, Machine, and Meaning: Living Intentionally in the Digital Age (COG SCI 175) launches at UC Berkeley, taught by cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef. The course is a living experiment in tech intentionality education, and in the Spring 2026 semester its 450 students reported a 25% reduction in digital dependence and a 23% reduction in symptoms of depression.
The Project Reboot club at UC Berkeley hosts a big party without big tech. Students put their phones away for the day, make signs, play games, and spend time together in person, showing what a great afternoon looks like when nobody is scrolling.
Big party without big tech
The Tamalpais Union High School District (TAM) puts Project Reboot over 100,000 students, with the program livestreamed to the entire district from Redwood High School.
Over 100,000 students reached
September 2026
Our team
The people behind Reboot
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Dino founded Project Reboot after developing, and overcoming, a tech addiction while studying data science at UC Berkeley. There he created INFO 98: Becoming Tech Intentional, a popular course that helped hundreds of Berkeley students cut their screen time by an average of 3.5 hours a day.
Since graduating, he has delivered over 300 keynotes to 100,000+ students and parents around the world. His TEDx talk, The Battle for Your Time, has been viewed nearly 4 million times.
Dawson Kelly
Head of Youth Advocacy
Dawson grew up inside the experiment, getting his first iPad at nine and learning self-worth through likes and streaks. At UC Berkeley he taught Becoming Tech Intentional, a course that cut students' screen time by an average of 3 hours a day, only to watch most of them slide back once it ended. That taught him you can't willpower your way out of a machine built to exploit your brain. It takes culture.
As Head of Youth Advocacy, he leads Project Reboot's network of clubs across 18 college and 20 high school campuses, where students make media for their own generation and build a movement led by the people who lived it.
Hailey Wright
Head of Partnerships
Hailey Wright serves as Head of Partnerships at Project Reboot, where she works to expand the organization's mission of helping young people build intentional, healthy relationships with technology.
Before joining Project Reboot, Hailey was Head of Operations at Becoming Superhuman, a company that teaches the science of productivity and performance to professionals and organizations through talks, workshops, and custom programs. Prior to that, she spent several years as Director of Brand and Customer Experience Marketing at MetaRail, Inc., a digital commerce and advertising technology platform that connects websites, applications, and devices across the internet using commerce signals rather than keywords.
A Nebraska native, Hailey holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications. She now lives in Vancouver, Washington, with her husband and their two kids, where she brings the same intentionality she champions professionally to her own family's relationship with technology.
Daniella Spero
Head of Programming & Development
Daniella grew up in the middle of the tech crisis. As an undergraduate studying political science at UC Berkeley, she has focused on protecting human rights threatened by the misuse of technology. Even as a full-time student, she found herself sinking into five-plus hours of screen time a day.
After taking the Mind, Machine, and Meaning course at UC Berkeley, Daniella joined the youth advocacy team at Project Reboot's UC Berkeley chapter. Since then, she has written policy proposals for intentional technology initiatives and led student-run events on campus. As Head of Programming & Development, Daniella works directly with students and teachers through school assemblies, designs school programming, and drives the development of Project Reboot's internal initiatives.
Dr. Sahar Yousef
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Sahar Yousef is a cognitive neuroscientist and faculty at UC Berkeley in both Cognitive Science and the Haas School of Business. She is considered one of the world's leading experts on cognitive neuroplasticity, digital dependence, and the science of productivity.
At Berkeley, Sahar co-runs the Becoming Superhuman Lab and teaches “Science of Productivity and Performance” and “Mind, Machine, and Meaning: Living Intentionally in the Digital Age”. She has given over 1,000 keynotes to knowledge workers in 50+ countries, including for the U.S. Congress, and was recently named by Thinkers50 as one of the top 30 management thinkers to watch. She helped build and run the first Project Reboot Online Course.
Lucas Miller
Strategic Advisor, AI Development
Lucas Miller is a cognitive scientist, author, and faculty at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His research focuses on how to protect and augment human learning and cognition in the age of AI, and he teaches “The Augmented Executive,” one of the business school's leading AI courses for executives.
At Berkeley, Lucas also co-runs the Becoming Superhuman Lab and teaches “The Science of Productivity and Performance.” He is the author of Beyond Brilliance: The Blueprint for Learning Anything and has spent a decade turning science into practical tools for students, executives, and organizations. He helped build and run the first Project Reboot Online Course, and now brings his AI expertise to Project Reboot as Strategic Advisor for AI Development.
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