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On August 5, next Friday evening, Global Youth Philanthropy organizes a unique students’ cross-cultures event,  GYP, the fourth Intercultural Symposium, “Education, Races, and more.”   Four high school students who all grew up in the Boston area will share their educational background and their views and experiences on “education and races” in today’s American society.  

These four panelists are excellent high school students in the Boston area, but they came from different school systems,  some from exam school, one from a private school, and one from a very good public school. Even though they all grew up in a large Boston area, their families’ legacies are very diversified,  from Haiti,  Trinidad and Tobago, Iran, and China.

They will share their educational experiences and their personal view of race, equal educational opportunities, and other social issues in America.

To earn students’ volunteering hours and GYP training certificate, please join our ongoing GYP Intercultural Symposiumsee more details

Global Youth Philanthropy is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: “Education, Races, and more.”

Time: Aug 5, 2022, 09:00 PM Eastern Time (the US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86218621213?pwd=RjZCKzFxQm16aWVveEN4endSdHZpdz09

Meeting ID: 862 1862 1213

Passcode: 160312

Event Moderator: Theresa Fu

Hi everyone! My name is Theresa Fu, and I’m a rising junior from Lake Forest Academy. I hope with this upcoming symposium that people can learn more and interact with cultures they may not be as exposed to (it’s also just a safe space to discuss all things multicultural!). In my spare time, I enjoy dancing, coding, and reading.

Panelist: Darvensky Daniel

Hi, I’m Darvensky Daniel; I’ll be a senior at Noble and Greenough this upcoming year. I’m passionate about coding and track and field. I founded the Coding Club at my school during my Sophomore year and have done many projects and events involving my community. I started track and field Freshman year and currently participate in multiple events: 100m dash, Long Jump, Javelin, and Discus. There are other hobbies I enjoy such as guitar, puzzles, and being active.

Panelist: Chandu Christopher

My name is Chandu Christopher, and I’m fifteen years old and heading into the 10th grade. I live with my mom and day and two siblings — an older brother and a younger sister. I was born and raised in Boston, MA, but since kindergarten, I’ve been attending school in Wellesley, MA. In school, my favorite subject is usually math, but it seems to change every year. Outside of school I’m interested in training and working out for sports such as football and track and field and now wrestling. Whenever I have free time I like to play video games with my friends and watch youtube. One of my goals while partaking in the GYP this summer is to improve my presentation skills.

Panelist: Melika Mostafavi

My name is Melika Mostafavi. I was born in Iran and came to the United States at a young age. I attended private schools until 7th grade when I attended a public school. I enjoy drawing and video games. I also enjoy making keychains.

Panelist: Caroline Song

Caroline Song is a 9th grader at Boston Latin School. Aside from studying, she enjoys writing stories and (really bad) poems in her spare time, as well as doing origami and reading books. Some of her interests include astrophysics, Greek mythology, and martial arts. She also plays the clarinet and the piano and likes to go biking through the woods. At school, she is a content editor for the school’s science magazine, Catapult, and an active member of the Speech and Debate Team, the Science Team, and Mock Trial. She always tries her best to get engaged in her community and connect with others and is driven by her curiosity and passion for learning. Caroline hopes that with a lot of hard work and a bit of determination, she can make the world a better place; and maybe have some fun along the way.

Global Youth Philanthropy offers students volunteering opportunities, and students may earn volunteering hours and GYP training certificates by participating in three or more GYP intercultural events and writing comments after the events.

One of GYP’s missions is to promote intercultural understanding and inter-racial harmony among students of all ages. GYP organizes Intercultural Symposium a few times each year. Most of the events are English language events. GYP allows young students to plan, organize, and host such events.

To earn students Volunteering hours and GYP Intercultural Certificate by joining GYP Intercultural Symposium, please scan QR Code and fill in the registration form

After more than a month of hard work by a team of student volunteers and parents’ volunteers, the first part of the 2022 GYP Students Art Show started last weekend.

A group of GYP-Youth Engagement program students visited museums like Boston central library last Sunday (7/17) afternoon and spent some time in its Teen Central room with our artwork there.

Our event has also been published on the Boston Central library announcement system.

This is the first stage of our 2022 GYP Students Art Show, and two more events will be in Brookline Library and JP branch of Boston Library. There is NO standard difference among different show venues. All student artists will receive the same recognition.

Since May 22, 2021, Global Youth Philanthropy has organized a total of NINE online international students’ exchange events. Most of them are rich in content, interesting, and educational. The events include cultural sharing, science-focused, and talents show.

The videos of our student events are available on the Youtube channel of Global Youth Philanthropy:

Everyone is welcome to watch our student’s event videos and send us feedback at <info@globalyouthphilanthropy.org>

Event 9 on June 18, 2022: Student’s View of Japenese Cultures sharing – the 2nd Intercultural Symposium.

Event 8 on May 28, 2022: A Pakistan Student shares Pakistan Cultures- the 1st Intercultural Symposium.

Event 7 on May 21, 2022: GYP Stem program and Philanthropy Discussion Forum

Event 6 on January 2, 2022- GYP New Year Students Talents Show

Event 5 on October 2, 2021- Preparing for the Era of Big Data

Events 4 on August 27, 2021-Sharing Canadian cultures and life by young students

Event 3 on August 7, 2021 – US Presidents and History

Event 2 on July 10, 2021- Community Service- Introduction of ” Bridge to Harmony”

Event 1 on May 22, 2021- After School Passion

Tingxuan is a high school student from Shenzhen China. Other than academics, she enjoys cooking and volunteering. She has participated in rescue activities for stray dogs in Shenzhen and tutoring. Tingxuan got to know GYP by the introduction of her mother’s friend who is also a volunteer at GYP. She thinks GYP is a good platform for volunteering and she is eager to do something to help people.

When Tingxuan was studying in America, her homestay family ran a Chinese school. She helped teach there when they were living together. Then, she finds herself loving to get along with children and loves the sense of achievement when she teaches kids. That’s what motivates her to be a volunteer.

Tingxuan is now tutoring a primary student in Jinan who had ALS and had recovered a lot with the help of machine treatment. In the beginning, Tingxuan was in charge of catching up on the lessons he missed during his treatment, and now she’s helping him to review for his middle school entrance exam. They have a meeting every Saturday night. Tingxuan will help him in answering questions about his courses — mainly English and Mathematics. However, Tingxuan sometimes has problems with the course Chinese. She came to America in Year 8 and stayed here for a year, that’s why her Chinese is not as good as other Chinese students. When the student asks questions about Chinese, she has to prepare in advance, which means she needs to review it or even study it to make sure she could answer the question. “Even if you are a native speaker of Chinese, using the language is not the same as actually teaching it.” She says. Though this work is sometimes challenging, she loves being his tutor and helping him.

We are very glad to have students like Tingxuan who dedicate themselves selflessly. The world may not be a paradise because conflict and suffering are objective realities. However, with volunteers like Tingxuan who are optimistic about life and actively want to help others, the world can be a better place.

Crayon summer in Provence by Alina

Alina is a junior at high school living in Texas. She was born in the Chinese province of Hunan and relocated to Texas in June 2020. Her parents provide her with a lot of encouragement when it comes to painting. Alina enjoys the feeling of comfort and quiet while she is painting. Her second painting is the one she submitted to our art show. The crayon drawing displays a wide sea of lavender flowers and is adorned with additional flowers of various hues. The picture is mainly in warm tonal and the feel of exotic is attractive.

This is actually Alina’s second painting. Her first painting was an imitation of The Starry Night by Van Gogh. “The second painting,” she says, “I just want to try different styles after [the first painting] because Van Gogh’s painting is just too good and I feel very depressed.” She was trying to explore her own style of drawing when she was creating it. Alina very much feels relaxed and chilled in doing a completely different style from her first painting. Her feeling is embodied in the colors and strokes of the painting which is such a lively summer in Provence. For Alina’s next painting, she plans to do detailed artwork to improve her painting skill. She commented on her second painting “an emotive but rough work in attention to details”. She hopes next time she could do better to paint both emotive and exquisite pictures.

Alina got to know Global Youth Philanthropy because she saw the information shared by her friend’s mother. She saw the introduction of our art show and wants to donate her artwork to a nursing home. She wants the artwork to bring sunlight and her best wishes there to the old. “I thought it is better to do something for the old than keeping the artwork by myself.” Alina says.

The art show program of Global Youth Philanthropy is aiming to encourage and support young artists to contribute to their communities and make better social impacts via art philanthropic projects. We are glad to see students like Alina are using their own strength and making their own effort to benefit the community.

            If you want to contribute to our programs, please check the information in the “Our Programs” tab. We sincerely invite you to participate and make the world a better place.

Reporter: Estella Jiang

Global Youth Philanthropy has launched its Instagram account recently. Thanks to a network of student members and dedicated parents all over the world, GYP can share wonderful photos and shorts video as a cultural exchange tool.

For the first step, our Instagram has shared photos from Canada, Japan, and Singapore.

In the future, GYP Instagram will publish more news about Global Youth Philanthropy programs, share photos of our student members worldwide and publish interesting short videos by our students. Please follow our Instagram and share with your friends, Thank you!

May is a student at an international school in Shenzhen who tutors a trainee with special medical conditions in English amongst other things. She is very skilled in her academics, her favorite topics are Economics and Psychology. May enjoys skiing, stating that she loves the views she sees up high in the mountains. She has done tutoring for several a little over a year now, and started tutoring others in August of last year. She learned of the GYP through her primary school friend’s Mom. She joined because it would be a good experience and not difficult to do, as she has already done much tutoring beforehand.

When I asked about her trainee, a brave young girl who suffered from fire injuries and still deals with certain medical conditions. May tells me about the different ways she teaches her English. One of the ways she teaches basic English is by using a combination of both languages. She first states the word in Chinese, then says the same word, only in English. Along with English, she has taught about Norse and the Age of exploration to her.

Her most memorable moment tutoring, she tells me, was when her student asked to do an English song-learning class. During this time May learned of the resilience of her student, as she never let challenges hold her back from doing anything and really made an impression on May. The way they sang was that they took turns singing the song, this method made it very interactive to both of them. The lesson May took from this was that teaching and learning are greatly entwined, which is another reason why she loves tutoring.

May has been a great contributor to the community she is in, along with the GYP through her efforts to teach and enlighten others. She has the great ingenuity and creativity to continue teaching others even in the midst of global pandemic. We at the GYP strive to make higher education a possibility for those who may not be able to otherwise. Tutors such as May make sure this goal is achieved among a wide range of students despite many obstacles.

Reported by Simon Chen. Simon is GYP Outreach team member and an 8 grader in Boston.

It all started when Helen was an elementary school student…

Helen has always been interested in mathematics and competition math as well, but when she was a student she did not have many resources to help her prepare for these math competitions. She wants to make the challenges she faced in elementary school disappear for future generations.

Now, Helen is 16 years old and started a company named Mathlings to help elementary school students prepare for math competitions. What’s even more impressive is that Helen is a high school student who is able to balance her company and her school work at the same time. Even though high school can be stressful at times, she works at her company every day and is constantly coming up with new ideas for the program.

Helen’s favorite part about her company is that she can interact with students and help them as much as she can.

A typical day at Mathlings would be a one-hour class, and this l happens once every week. The students and teachers meet and start learning together. The teachers interact with each other and make sure that everyone is engaged and willing to learn. Then afterward, there is a manageable homework load assigned after the class is finished.

The student-to-teacher ratio is about 3-4 teachers to a wide range of 20-40 students.

After about a year since founding her company, Helen believes that Mathlings has grown a lot. Helen says that “the teachers have all grown closer to each other and have gotten to know each other better.” She also believes that the “community has gotten larger since the start” and the “students have all gotten more interested in the math competition subject and are enjoying it.”

Her company offers many different opportunities and courses for elementary school students of all ages and skill levels to participate. She says that “Competition math is different from regular school math” which is why she decided to start Mathlings to help those elementary school students to teach them about competition math. She states that “Mathlings offers many different courses based on age and skill level. There are two levels, Level 1 and Level 2, and students are separated into those levels based on skill.”

Helen’s company also offers different courses in competition math. For example, she says that “Level 2 has different sections that it is split into. Some of those sections include geometry and algebra.” Her company provides a lot of flexibility in what courses students want to learn about and can improve in specific areas they are not very strong in. She later stated that “over the summer, we plan on expanding our program, adding new curriculums and preparing students for the Kangaroo Math Competition.”

Not only is Mathlings only for students in elementary school, but it also provides an opportunity for middle school students and older to show off their leadership skills and teach to younger students as well. “Middle school students are able to participate and help teach the elementary school students to practice their leadership skills and will gain experience by teaching younger students.”

When asked where her goals for her company were, Helen said that she “wants to help as many students as possible.” Helen knows that a lot of elementary school students don’t like math or find that it is annoying or difficult to do, but she wants to show them that it is actually very enjoyable and fun.

Helen started Mathlings with a dream to make the lives of elementary school students easier by providing them with a free, math tutoring program for the competition math subject. Helen was not able to find such a great opportunity like Mathlings when she was in elementary school, which is why she decided to help and impact the community by creating this company. Mathlings has been doing a great job of helping students and bringing the community together for about a year now, and it is will only grow stronger from here on out

Report by Steven Miall

Steven is a 9 grader in Boston Latin School and a member of GYP Outreach Team