In honor of this month's Nevada Reading Week, we want you to meet an incredible duo, both high school seniors who want to make sure CCSD students read.

They co-founded a nonprofit called ReadUp Youth.

We caught up with this amazing team as they were assembling their latest project.

It is a Friday afternoon, and Clark High School senior Celine Chang and Palo Verde High School senior Rohitha Baskaran are hard at work.

(Celine Chang) A big part of this is to make sure that people have access.

-In fact, they'll spend most of their weekend doing this, alongside a team of volunteers, building and painting little libraries.

(Rohitha Baskaran) We love STEM education, like engineering with building the libraries, and we also love art.

So we're kind of combining our two loves.

-Each one bright, bold, and full of possibilities.

-We want to place all these libraries in schools.

That way, kids have access to free books, especially for Title I students who have less access than most students.

-Celine and Rohitha are the cofounders of ReadUp Youth, a nonprofit they started as sophomores.

-And the big mission of this nonprofit is to really combat the issue of decreasing literacy rates amongst not just Nevada students, but nationwide.

-There are now five chapters across the U.S.

They've developed an AI reading app.

They coordinate book donations.

And thanks to a grant from the City of Las Vegas, they will provide eight CCSD schools their own little library.

-And it's been really awesome helping my environment, like the community I live in.

So it's been really cool.

-For Celine, the mission is personal.

-My grandma, growing up she did not have access to education.

And she had to drop out of elementary school because her father died.

And so as a result, she never really got to learn to read well at all.

And so I remember, growing up, she always encouraged me to read because she believed reading was power.

-The libraries will be delivered to the schools fully stocked with books.

-So I'm really curious to just see how our community responds to the books, to see if people will continue, like, taking books in and out.

-Little libraries with big impact.

-You really want to get kids excited and to go out and think to themselves, Oh, let me go check out the little library this afternoon.

Let's see what's in there.

-And two friends building a love of reading to share.

So impressed.

Nice work.

Now, members of ReadUp Youth participated in Nevada Reading Week reading to other students, as did many members of our community, including members of the CCSD School Board of Trustees and Superintendent Jhone Ebert.