After a series of small-scale on-site students’ Art Shows in Boston and Brookline, MA, Global Youth Philanthropy formally launches its 2022 online art show in late of November. The online art show is parallelly on two platforms: <https://www.kunstmatrix.com/en >, this is a Europea based online art show website, and the Global Youth Philanthropy official website. Our art show on kunstmatrix will last about three months, and the display on our website will be permanent.
This online show includes more students’ artwork than on-site shows, as some of the artwork is for online shows only. Thanks to all students and parents for making a small amount of donations to GYP to make this event possible.
GYP’s second Mock Debate was a special outreach event with our partner school- Shanghai No.1 Experimental School Affiliated with SISU. The event was on November 12, Sat (EST). Three students team of the GYP Debate club had a debate with a team from the Debate club in Shanghai school. Both teams had excellent preferments. The motion of this debate was ” “Are grades and marks more important than social skills? ” Caroline from Boston and Emily from Shanghai co-hosted this event.
Following is the feedback from a few students in this event:
Hello, I’m Emily Li from SFLS. I am the president of our school’s debate club and the co-host&organizer of the GYP debate club’s 2nd mock debate on Nov.13. It’s my great honor to work with people from SES Chinese debate club, as well as to compete with the American debaters for the first time. I want to thank the SES debate club debaters for their support and coordination since we just knew each other for a short time. Also, our opponents presented very impressive speeches, and several judges gave us some really useful advice. From my perspective, “Are grades more important than social skills?” reflects the differences between the Chinese and American education systems. GYP debate club aims to make debating a way to unite people from different cultures. Thus, I think this debate highly reflected this value. After the debate, I learned quite a lot and met many interesting people. Moreover, the job of organizing events practiced my leadership skills, sense of responsibility, and so on. It was such a successful debate that most people enjoyed themselves. I hope to help organize more activities between the GYP debate club and other debate clubs in Shanghai.
This is Timmy Wang, the president of the SES Chinese debate club. I like such kinds of activities! Today’s debate is a precious chance to exercise my speaking. Besides, the debaters all leave me with a deep impression. They’re all passionate about talking freely. They’re good at expressing themselves, and communicating with them is a nice experience because what they said about the importance of social skills in the debate was very thought-provoking! I think I have a lot to learn from them. Also, I’d like to say that having such an international debate broadens my horizons and enhances my comprehensive abilities, not only my grades. I hope there can be more debates and we progress together through cooperation and communication.
Debate is a fascinating and powerful tool. It’s all too relevant in today’s political world; we watch presidential elections, and in this new age of unprecedented information sharing, we are often bombarded by contradictory news outlets. Although it can trace its roots back to the famous philosophical controversies of Ancient Greece, the debate is more relevant than ever in modern society. It is a way to thoroughly show both sides of an argument, it is an exercise in logic and reasoning.
And on Saturday, October 29th, Global Youth Philanthropy had its first mock debate, featuring the topic: grades and marks are more important than learning and social skills.
Molin Wang
Carinne Zhou
Two teams of two people each were tasked with exploring this issue. Team A, with Molin and Eric, was the pro side—they argued that the statement was true—while team B, consisting of Carinne and Caroline, was the con, arguing that it was false. And after a week of preparation, research, and writing, they were ready to make their case.
The pro side went first, introducing how grades are essential to helping kids understand what areas they need improvement on and how they provide critical motivation for young students. Next, Eric spoke about how focusing on social skills makes students too excited to concentrate and sucks away valuable time. He also touched upon how grades help students challenge themselves and get into a better college.
Carinne then argued that learning helps people get better grades since those that enjoy learning will try harder. She talked about the importance of happiness and mental health and how an overemphasis on grades affects one’s performance. Finally, she mentioned how grades are only a number and that many cheats to attain these grades.
Ben Han
Eric Wang
Then the rebuttals followed. Molin, on the pro side, re-emphasized that grades are the result of the effort that students put in school and that no grades would lead to no effort, defeating the whole point of attending school. She also discussed the earning gap between those with higher education and those without. Then, Caroline, on the con side, replied that pursuing grades can lead to burnout and loss of motivation. Furthermore, social skills can help you get a job.
Finally, each side was allowed to make a two-minute concluding speech, telling the judge and any viewers why exactly they were right. Molin and Carinne each artfully delivered their speech from their respective sides.
Afterward, the judge, Ben, provided insightful feedback and gave advice from his own experiences in competitive debate.
The final verdict? As the spectators and debaters held their breaths, he revealed that the con won him over.
Thus was the conclusion of GYP’s first mock debate, which will likely be held again 1-2 times a month from here on out. After this first successful event, GYP hopes to engage more people from different parts of the world. The next mock debate will take place Saturday, November 12th. The topic will be the same, but the teams will be different, and new ideas will almost certainly be explored.
On (EST)November 5, 2022, evening (Beijing time Nov 6, 2022 morning), Global Youth Philanthropy-Boston will organize a major online event. Three major components in this online event: 1), Celebration of the achievement of 15 GYP students to receive the 2022 President’s Volunteer Service Award; 2) the News of release GYP 2022 Art Show; 3) the News release for GYP 2022 students’ online concert.
Besides, two GYP-Boston students’ club leaders will also give introduction sessions on the recent GYP Debate club and GYP History Club.
The host of the event is Lucy Zhang
Lucy is the winner of the 2022 PVSA Gold
Andrew Zheng, who has been in charge of 2022 GYP Art show, will make news release on three onsite art shows in large Boston area this summer, and also the progress of GYP 2022 Online Art show that is scheduled to complete late of November this year.
Steven Alexander Miall， who has been in charge of 2022 GYP online concert, will make introducation of the whole production process and share a few outstanding parts of this online concert.
Ben Han, who is one of GYP Debate club leaders, will make introducation of GYP Debate club activities, such as entry level Public Speaking skill course, entry and advanced level of Debate skill courses. Ben will also introduce another feature of GYP Debate club: monthly mock online event that started on October 2022.
Sharon He, who is co-president of GYP History club, will introduce History club seminars that have started in October, 2022, and “GYP History Review” that is history essays writing project that five high school students are working on it now.
A few PVSA winners will also share their volunteering experiences or share his or her art talents online. The first hour of this event will be all in English and participated by young students all over the world.
The second part of the event will include short speaches of GYP World Network board member, GYP event partners, art advisors and distingualished guests.
This is opened event, so everyone is welcome to join the zoom meeting that time.
The event zoom link:
Topic: PVSA Celebration & Art Show-Online Concert News Release
Time: Nov 5, 2022 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
