On July 30, Saturday, a group of GYP students and their families gathered in Teen Central of Boston Central Library to celebrate the first stage of the 2022 GYP Students’ Art Show.
The young artists, their families, and some visitors could admire the display of artwork. A few young artists received GYP Certificates of 2022 Art Show Participation and shared his or her art creation ideas, learning experiences, and expectation for the future.
GYP Art & Philanthropy Students Committee Co-President Andrew Zheng hosted this event. Student artists: Andrew Zheng, Ethan Tian, Ryan Tao, Joseph Du, David Yang, Lucy Zhang, Sean Zheng. Considering over 30 student artists in this year’s on-site show, the size of our celebration group is small, and many artists must share their experiences online and in other forms.
Teen Central librarian Maty Cropley joined our event and shared her experiences supporting young students in this library.
We want to thank every artist and family for creating inspiring artwork and donating your pieces. Special thanks to Maty, who has been very supportive in the whole art show preparation, and thanks to Joseph Du’s family, that traveled from New Jersey to Boston for this event.
The 2nd stage of the 2022 GYP Art Show will start in Brookline Central library soon.
Global Youth Philanthropy launches its new US History class in the summer of 2022. The class is scheduled to start in the middle of August and runs eight sessions in total.
In this US History class, we will cover various topics in the US from the 1600s to the modern days, such as the American Revolution, Western Expansion, Civil War, etc. Each class will include an informative slideshow and activities to improve students’ understanding further. Each student should be prepared to select a topic relating to US History and prepare to make a short presentation or short essay. Presentations or essays will be shared in the last class.
Prerequisites: None
Week 1 – Native Americans
Week 2 – Colonial America
Week 3 – The American Revolution
Week 4 – The American Civil War
Week 5 – Westward Expansion
Week 6 – The Great Depression
Week 7 – Civil Rights Movement
Week 8 – Students’ presentations and current event discussion
Teacher: Kevin Wang
My name is Kevin Wang, and I’m a rising sophomore at the Boston Latin School. I co-founded the history club at my school and competed in the history bowl with my teammates. In my free time, I like to listen to music and read.
To register for this class, please scan the QR Code on the following poster, and fill in the online registration form
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sharon is a junior in high school who lives and mentors students in China as one of our foreign correspondents. While academically skilled at English, History, and Geometry, Sharon also enjoys writing and being involved in middle and high school plays. Some of her interests include reading, sword fighting, and playing Chinese chess. 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.
When asked about her students, Sharon tells me that she has tutored a pair of middle school twins in math, as preparation for a final exam. Living in Zunyi, Guizhou, Jiaqi Song, and Jiaying Song is part of a special GYP global program to support students with special needs. Diagnosed with thalassemia major as infants, the brave twins have undergone 10 years of blood transfusions, iron removal, and stem cell transplants. With both parents working tirelessly to support their medical needs, a full private education for their children wasn’t affordable. For this particular program, Sharon’s main role was to be a companion for the girls and remain informed regarding what was going on at school.
Sharon has also tutored a small group of five students in another program. First, she taught them basic English speaking comprehension with the help of a textbook. Then, they moved onto a particular discussion of her favorite series: The Chronicles of Narnia. In class, she would orally translate the English content into Chinese for the students, and then hand out vocabulary lists for them to study after class. Sharon tells me a little more about their discussions about the world of Narnia; “When we began Narnia, we talked for a long time about the Lion, Aslan. One student said he watched the Narnia movie and sent a classic scene to me. I was happy to teach them about English literature, which was not available in their school”.
We at Global Youth Philanthropy are glad to have Sharon as a correspondent. A big part of our mission is to create more gateways into higher education by curating close mentorships within all global communities. As someone who has had to become accustomed to life in a different land, Sharon has been excellent at utilizing similar literary writings to connect with individual students and encourages them to keep on learning even while living in the midst of a global pandemic.
We hope that you or someone you know will take interest in working with us to uplift any child who could benefit from supplemental assistance and mentorship to boost educational growth.
Eager to share and educate young learners everywhere, AnAn, a junior from Winsor School, shares her knowledge of the British Classics(beginning with the renowned William Shakespeare works) in a series of classes. Having tutored for around two years previously, she’s garnered plenty of experience in this field and has expressed interest in continuously fostering these essential English skills.
A pivotal aspect to understanding English– and hence being able to write, stems from the ability to dissect and apply its various rules. During her time spent with her students, AnAn observed “writing is really hard to understand when [students] don’t know grammar structures for instance or the reason behind such and why people write the way they do.” Thus, birthed the focus of her lessons: British literature, where the history and background of numerous authors come into play and provide insight into those key points.
Although initially, the students may struggle to unravel the enigma that Shakespeare’s writing is rather infamous to be, AnAn mentioned“his work is seen everywhere– many times you don’t even notice it.” The universal application of Shakespeare’s work is what makes his writing so prominent, and why so many high schools highlight them as a part of their agenda. Through reading such texts and digesting them, AnAn explained “helps them become better writers.”
Writing itself is globally utilized, a vital tool seen through a diverse array of occupational arsenals. In regards to the importance of writing, she emphasized “everyone needs to know how to write, even if you goto a seemingly completely unrelated career. For instance business, you may not associate math with writing but say you need to create a business proposal… youneed to write it.” AnAn further commented that a lot of younger learners aren’t aware of its direct impact, and she seeks to demonstrate and help them grow to become curious and questioning individuals in tandem with developing their writing.
Over the years, AnAn reflected upon her personal relationship-evolution in regards to writing. She recalled that before writing was one of the most difficult classes, most of which is attributed to the subjectiveness of the topic. “You don’t know what’sgood writing vs. bad writing, whereas something like math is morestraightforward… What I’ve come to learn is that writing doesn’t just apply to school, which was the biggest change in me. I hadonce thought that writing was purely a school-thing, but it’s truly a lifelesson.” The little tasks in life, be it an email, or the larger, be it an application, writing resides throughout all facets of life and AnAn treats her classes as a place to cultivate these monumental skills.
Reported by Theresa Fu, 10 grader from Lake Forest Academy, IL
We are looking for co-organizers and event sponsors, please contact us for more details!
The goal of GYP Art Show 2022: to encourage and support young artists to contribute to their communities and to make better social impacts via art philanthropic projects.
the combination of online and on-site shows in selected community libraries and senior living homes in the Boston area.
Event organizer: Global Youth Philanthropy (USA)
Initial Application deadline: April 30, 2022
Application Process:
Step 1: Submit the application and
Step 2: submit artworks, photos of artworks, and a 1-minute video of the artist talking (artwork ideas, artiest experiences, and inspirations)
Scheduled Art Showing dates: from June 16 to August 15, 2022
All qualified participants will receive a certificate of GYP Art Show participation. A certain number of students will receive GYP Young Artist Awards.
Interested in this art show? please scan QR code below, fill in the application form. Contact email: <gyp20202021@admin
