At the age of 17, David Godri has taken a dream and turned it into reality by founding and directing a youth-driven non-profit organization called SWITCH. His aim was to reduce his school's dependence on the power grid through the generation of renewable energies. SWITCH is not only reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also training the minds of tomorrow about renewable energies and sustainable development.

David has been involved in the Toronto District School Board's (TDSB) success of securing $250,000 from the Ontario provincial government which will allow for installation of solar panels on ten TDSB schools. He also organized a solar powered rock concert at his high school with a guestlist including TBSB trustees, Dr. David Suzuki and Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies. David is attending Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto to pursue a career in urban environmental sustainability.

In 2005, Godri worked as a research student in the Petawawa Research Forest performing studies to determine the impact and ideal contagion sites of an infectious root rot on black spruce trees. In this role, he executed coring procedures and sapwood analysis under the direction of a research scientist. In that same year, he also worked as a teacher's assistant, instructing students from grades 1 to 6 to build their own computer games and construct their own robots.

Godri has also been an active volunteer since 2005, working in an ombudsperson capacity with his fellow peers at high school. He has also volunteered as a publicity co-ordinator for Global Day for Darfur: Toronto Rally and he currently motivates youth across Toronto as project leader for the non-profit organization Project Equity, which provides youth with opportunities to guide them away from gangs, drugs and crime.

He has received numerous awards and scholarships, and was named as one of Canada's prestigious Top 20 Under 20 in 2008. He has served as a panellist and keynote speaker and will be featured in an upcoming environmental book for children to be released this fall. Above all of this he is also proficient in Hungarian and French.