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From Oct 15, 2022, EST, GYP History Club will organize a seminar series of 8 events. The event time will in Sat evening EST, which is Sunday morning Beijing time. These seminars are mainly for club members, but a limited number of students interested in joining the club will be accepted for the events. If you are interested in the seminars, please contact GYP-Boston at <info@globalyouthphilanthropy.org>.

GYP History Club Seminars Details:

Oct 15-16 Ancient Greece History by Austin Shen
Oct 22-23 Ancient Greece History by Austin Shen

Austin is a 12-yr 7th grader at Lexington, MA. He enjoys reading, soccer, and hanging out with friends.

Oct 29-30 Ancient Rome History by Jesse Yang
Nov 5-6 Ancient Rome History by Jesse Yang

Jesse is a 5th grader at Fudan International School(FDIS). He’s a dedicated reader, and he’s influenced a lot of children to read. He’s really into swimming, sketching, mapmaking, and coding. Besides, he’s a basketball player on the school team. In addition, he’s Vice President of the student council at FDIS.

Nov 12-13 The Story of the Jews-Ancient Israel by Sharon Ho
Nov 19-20 The Story of the Jews-Modern History by Sharon Ho

Sharon is a junior in high school who lives and mentors students in China.
She encountered GYP through its program with her mother’s school, joining the online tutoring program at the beginning of 2021 when she was studying in a private school in Boston. After returning to China last summer, she continued to work with GYP and has since demonstrated excellence in tutoring and responsibility for student volunteering.

Nov 26-27 Turkey Modern History by Keyu Yang
Dec 3-4 Turkey Modern History by Keyu Yang

Keyu Yang is a sixth grader at the affiliated Elementary School of Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China. He has a great passion to help his school, community, and the world to be a better place for everyone. Besides his studies, he is really into 3 * 3 Rubik’s cube, lego assembling, and piano.

Molin Wang is an 11-year-old going into the 6th grade. She was born in the Shang Yang province and grew up in China. She recently relocated to California in 2020. Molin says she enjoys being able to express her thoughts and feelings through many different art forms. She has
submitted four paintings for the art show. The titles are Happiness, Beautiful Home, Lotus Wind, and Happiness descended from the sky. Their favorite piece that she commissioned was Happiness shows Chinese painting with many different creatures, spider’s appearance is a good
omen in olden times. The image represents good luck and prosperity for the future. The painting’s theme is based on love, joy, and happiness, filled with color and intricate details. When asked what she would do next time if she were to repaint this piece, she said she would “ would improve the decorations and details, make the colors more vivid and clear.”

Her paintings took around 20-30 minutes to complete, and she mostly used Chinese ink and watercolor. Her parents supported her on her journey in art, and she first showed interest around the age of five. When asked why she chose to draw these specific paintings and donate them, she said she is “doing charities for human society, and I would
love to use art to benefit human lives.” She enjoys art and aims to express her feelings and bring up the brightness and joy in human nature for the future, inspire others, and provide hope in times of need. She takes pleasure in art and wants to show her creative impressions, add to her art, and express hope and feelings through many styles of paintings. When asked about her views on how art affects society, she says, “I think art is significant and powerful, and it gives people spiritual strength.”

She discovered PYD through a WeChat group and signed up as a volunteer teacher. Her aunt and parents helped her with some pieces, but the inspirations were original. She was inspired by nature and all the animals she saw outside. The biggest challenge, she said, was to come up with the ideas and clean up the details after the painting was almost
completed. The art show program of Global Youth Philanthropy aims 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 Molin using their own strengths and making their own effort to benefit the community. Please check the information in the “Our Programs” tab if you want to contribute to our programs. We sincerely invite you to participate and make the world a better place.

As reported by Ben Han

To effectively encourage and recognize student volunteers and students’ philanthropy projects, and at the same time, to let students learn charity giving by doing, GYP launched a students-run mini fund called: the “GYP Students Recognition Fund.”

We like to thank our first group of outstanding student contributors and their parents for their support, and we hope more and more people will join this group.

Here are the first group of students contributors:

Sean Zheng from Boston

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Caroline Song from Boston

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Steven Miall from Boston

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Ryan Tao from Lexington, MA

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Andrew Zheng from Boston

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Kevin Wang from Boston

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Grace Cai from Newton, MA

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Tiffany Li

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David Qiao

Global Youth Philanthropy Worldwide Network has two online events this weekend, September 10-11, 2022:

Event 1: “Charming Voice & Impressive Speech” in English and Chinese

Event 2: The Strategy to apply for college financial aid (In Chinese ) EST Saturday, September 10, 2022

In the evening of September 24, 2022 Saturday (EST), Global Youth Philanthropy plans to organize an online seminar on college application. The event’s title: Navigating the College Application Process While at Home

Feeling overwhelmed by how to help your student select the right college and successfully navigate the admissions process? The college admissions landscape has changed significantly, and it’s important that parents and students stay updated!

This seminar will review the key steps of the college admissions process and the best approach to take for every component that goes into a successful college application.

In addition to gaining invaluable knowledge, attendees will take away topic-specific materials for their future reference.

Event Speaker: Ms. Alex Peruta

Alex Peruta, IEC and Founder of Strategic Academic Success:

Alex Peruta is a seasoned educational consultant (private school, college, and graduate school) and master tutor. Armed with over 15 years of first-hand experience in college prep and the rigorous climate of elite academic institutions, Alex has a unique insight into top-tier academic study and admissions, both at the secondary and university level. Graduating with honors from Williams College with degrees in biology, chemistry and biochemistry, Alexandra went on to work at Yale University School of Medicine studying infectious disease and continued her graduate studies at Harvard University. 

Alex is a member of the Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA), the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), the Association for the Coaching and Tutoring Profession (ACTP), the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), and the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). With Alex’s expert guidance, her students have been successfully admitted to over 500 top colleges and universities. Alex’s extensive STEM background has also prepared her to successfully mentor numerous students in their pursuit of STEM and pre-health careers. With over a decade of consulting and over 30,000 hours of tutoring/educational advising experience, Alex offers a boutique approach to academic consulting that has aided hundreds of students in achieving their academic goals.

To join the event, please scan the QR Code in following poster, fill in the simple registration form, then you will receive the event zoom link zoom

Ryan Tao is an upcoming 5th grader who goes to Bowman Elementary school. While his favorite subject in school is math, he relishes doing pencil sketches and gouache painting in his spare time. He consistently gets much support from his community and wants to give something back to them. He has been learning art for two years from his favorite teacher Cheng from Beijing. His favorite artist is Bob Ross.

 Though he is unsure of what he likes specifically about his type of artwork, he believes that the best aspect that every artist should have if they wish to have a good painting is to practice and concentrate. As a young artist, his artworks were collected in Celebration Art Contest in 2020 and 2021 and displayed at the Lexington Town Hall for three years. “I am proud of my artworks,” he said, “to be selected by the city of Lexington.”

 The artwork that he submitted consists of two cats who have a strong affection which each other, but they cannot physically see each other due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. The artist hopes that the two cats will live happily with each other when the pandemic ends. He desires the artwork to illustrate two qualities: peace and love. Ryan is currently working on 3D fruit designs and has big plans in the future to share more of his artworks for the community to see. He is very grateful for how encouraging his community is to him and wishes everyone who sees his artwork will be more peaceful and, in his own words, have a “lovely mind.”

Q1, What is your name?

 I am Ryan Tao.

Q2, What grade are you in, and what school do you attend? Any favorite school subjects?

 I am going to 5th grade. I go to Bowman Elementary, and my favorite subject is math.

Q3, What is your favorite type of art? Other hobbies?

 I like pencil sketching and enjoy gwash painting.

Q4, How long have you been learning? Any favorite art teacher?

 I have been learning with my favorite teacher Chen from Beijing, for two years.

Q5, Any prizes, honors, or proud moments you want to share?

 My artworks were collected into Celebration Art in 2020 and 2021 and get high manors in 2021. I am proud of my artworks have been selected by the city of Lexington to show up in the town center for three years.

Q6, what do you like about your type of art in general?

 I am not sure.

Q7, Who is your favorite artist?

 Bob Ross

Q8, What points or aspects do you believe a good artwork should have?

 Practice and concentration

Q9, Do you mind describing the artwork you submitted or want to submit? Any sparkling moment in conception? What do you want to display? Any unique design of color or others? What kind of feeling does this artwork convey?

 The artwork submitted to the central library is about two cats who love each other but can not see each other because of the Corvid 19. When Corvid 19 ended, they were happy living together.

Q10, Why do you want to submit this artwork for this event?

 Peace of mind because it’s about peace and love.

Q11, Do you get any positive or critical feedback on this artwork? How would you respond? Which part would you wish to work on more?

 Yes, thanks to everyone for supporting me. I would like to support my artwork back to the community.

Q12, Any other artwork you are working on right now and any big plans in the future?

 I am working on the 3D fruit change to design. I would like to share my artwork with the whole community. I wish everyone saw my artwork to get a peaceful and lovely mind.

As reported by Evan Yifan Ding of Boston Latin School

As a part of the Global Youth Philanthropy (GYP) 2022 Students Art Show, we are currently accepting new applications for Online Art Show.

Our 2022 Students Art Show includes an online show and on-site shows in Boston Central Library, Brookline Library, and Jamaica Plain Branch Library

1), Themes of 2022 Students Art Show: Healthy-Community- Family

2),  Our Art Show is for all students aged 5 to 18,

3),  Possible Online Art Show Venues:
GYP Website:  http://globalyouthphilanthropy.org and its social media
                     https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/                    
                     https://www.artsonia.com

4),  Duration of online Show: September to December of 2022

5) Online Show includes digital publishing of the artwork and young artists’ introductions on the E-book of “GYP 2022 Yearbook”. GYP will formally publish its E-book title “GYP 2022 Yearbook” in the fall of 2022.  This E-book will be published with The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) ）of：[979-8-9868009-1-2]. Our book will be collected in major public libraries in the USA.

6),   $20 registration fee for student artists in Online Art Show 

7),   Please scan the QR Code in the following picture and fill in the application. Please send the photo of your art work to us at <info@globalyouthphilanthropy.org>, please write the artist name and art work introduction.  Contact us by the same email for any questions and inquiries.

For more information about our on-site art show in the Boston area, please read our previous postings:

2022 GYP Art Show has started

GYP 1st Art Show Celebration in Boston Central Library

On evening of August 5, 2022, Global Youth Philanthropy organized an online students seminar in title of “Races, Education and more”. Theresa Fu, GYP Intercultural Symposium Committee Co-President , hosted the event and four high school students, Darvensky Daniel，Chandu Christopher，Melika Mostafavi and  Caroline Song , participated the symposium as the panelists. These four students are also in GYP-YEE (Boston city government sponsored Youth Engagement and Employment) program. That event was the number 11 GYP international students forum event.

Although all four students’ panelists are all from the high schools in the large Boston area, but they have the diversified backgrounds. Their family heritage backgrounds include Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago,Iran and China.

 This seminar discussed the many struggles people go through due to their ethnicity, religious beliefs, race, and more within the United States. This could be an eye opener for many people who do not experience discrimination to learn about the struggle that others are subjected to. The panelists went on to speak about topics such as the effects of growing up with a different background, how different schools can have an impact on this, some harmful stereotypes that are attached to minorities, and more, going into personal details about experiences they have gone through.

The panelists all had different experiences, and all came from different backgrounds. This allows for a more diverse conversation regarding the panelists’ experiences and thoughts. For example, while nearly all of the panelists experienced stereotyping and discrimination, they all had different thoughts about it. Caroline speaks about the stereotype that all Asians are naturally smart and finds it concerning that these stereotypes can bleed through to families for generations. Melika speaks about the stereotype that Islamic/Arab people are terrorists and finds it odd that people say that in person and not just online. Darvensky speaks about the stereotype that black people have higher physical capabilities than others and responds to this with a shock that people can bring themselves to say it to someone’s face. 

All of these panelists have their own unique experiences in regard to their culture, both positive and negative. For example, Caroline and Melika both had positive experiences in regards to other people attempting to speak their(Caroline and Melika’s) native languages, and Darvensky and Chandu both had negative or at least odd experiences in regards to how they were being treated in school. Listening to these panelists speak about the different aspects of being different in a country where being different is not always appreciated can be an eye opener for those who are not discriminated against and allows those people to see into the positive and negative aspects of their lives of others in order to improve themselves and how they may treat others.

Please visit GYP Youtube channel to watch the video of this seminar and please send your comments and feedback to us by email at <info@globalyouthphilanthropy.org>

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Amy’s data science club was founded in her sophomore year of high school and has been going strong ever since.

Amy began this club because she believed that “data science is a buzzword, and AI is very big right now.” Although there has been lots of news around the topic, “lots of high schoolers are not sure about the topic and that they don’t have many resources.” Amy’s goal for this data science club was to promote outreach in data science because not many people are aware of the opportunities and resources that those high schoolers needed to excel in data science.

Amy first got into data science when she attended a Stanford summer camp in her freshman year of high school. The camp was an intro to data science. She says that “data science is a big part of AI and that it is a very difficult thing to learn.” To help her, she tools many classes that would help her with data science, such as AP Statistics and Computer Science courses, and even though they were challenging classes because she was so passionate about the topic, they ended up helping her become very familiar in data science and also helped a lot with her data science club in school.

When asked about what the most challenging part about running her school club was, she said the hardest part was how to get the club’s feet off the ground. The club started with ten members, but she was helped a lot by her close friends. They helped by attending her club and spreading the word about the club to raise its awareness. Then the club started to grow, and now there are about 50 participants. And since the data science club is getting bigger, they decided to branch into many different data science topics. For example, many students were interested in sports, so they branched off into a sports data science branch that mainly focused on sports analytics.

A typical day in Amy’s club would always vary because there are many things to do. Each day the club would do a presentation, and workshops, give lectures, give data science concepts, and even have speakers or researchers to help speak at the club. Some of those speakers come from prestigious universities such as Yale.

One example of a project that they have done in the data science club is that they made a course calculator, which is a calculator that estimates the amount of time you will spend on homework and projects for whichever class you take. And this calculator information is based on tons of surveys sent out by the club to determine the amount of time it takes for each high school course.

Amy’s favorite part of her data science club is seeing how so many people are passionate about a topic that she is also passionate about and seeing how so many people are connecting and growing through data science. Amy’s friends and family also played a huge role in this club because Amy’s friends would always have her back; if she were ever sick, they would fill in for her, her friends would always help her promote her club, and they were always there for her when they needed support.

Reported by GYP Outreach team member

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Joseph Du is a rising third grader from New Jersey. At the young age of 2 years old, he began his art journey by drawing balloons. A year later, he began attending art classes, and his passion for art has only increased. Joseph tells me, “I think art is fun. It brings me satisfaction and peace when I am drawing or doing crafts.” Because he thinks art makes the world look far better, he also enjoys visiting art museums with his parents to immerse himself in various pieces of artwork from different times and cultures. These pieces have taught him that there is no limit to one’s artistic expression in the world of art.

When asked about his artwork, Joseph tells me that he had help from his teacher to design this piece. Overall, it took a month to complete the drawing portion. Because he loves his work so much, he admits that he was hesitant to give it out but ultimately decided that he wanted people to see his artwork and love it as much as he does.

The theme his artwork represents is Peace and Hope. He included the powerful waves because one of his favorite activities is going to the beach with his family. He reflects, “I love standing at the shore and feeling the waves on my feet. It makes me feel at peace.” The sunflowers in this picture represent the warmth of sunlight and the hope it brings humanity. Joseph has a beautiful hope that this piece inspires people, although vastly different, to strive to build a better community that embraces differences.

Lastly, Joseph would like to thank his art teachers and event volunteers.