During the summer of 2021, Brian Kuang, Gary Mei, Charlie Mei, and Kaisen from the East Cobb Branch participated in the Summer Camp Program and taught for weeks.
This program was initially started in the summer of 2020 due to the lockdowns and cancellation of real summer camps caused by COVID-19. AYLUS has decided to bring it back again this year. The goal is to provide entertainment and teach different skills to children who may be bored at home or want to learn something new. By teaching these kids, we want to help them have fun and relieve some burden from their parents.
Activities that are offered include tennis, basketball, soccer, cooking, drawing, piano, violin, dancing, and more.
Brian Kuang, Gary Mei, Charlie Mei, Kaisen, and Sean Yan contributed by teaching 10 kids basketball.
Thinking that the kids would have prior experience with basketball, me and Gary went into this camp expecting to run games the whole time, possibly even play with them. However, just a couple minutes into the first week and we could see that most of the kids had little to no experience with basketball – inconsistent dribbling and a broken shot was the best they had. We changed our plans and split the kids into groups of 3 between teachers to work on fundamental skills such as dribbling, passing, and shooting layups. Splitting the kids into groups would give teachers a better grasp of each child’s skill level and help point out where they can improve. After working in groups for a while, we experimented with a scrimmage game between the teams of 3. Though messy and unorthodox, the kids loved it a lot. We kept the same system running for the following weeks and the kids seem to have an amazing time.
Reported by Brian Kuang
Participants:
Jack Xu (4.5 hours): 07/06 2 hours, 07/07 1 hour, 07/08 1.5 hours
Sean Yan (1.5 hour): 07/06 0.5 hours, 07/07 0.5 hours, 07/08 0.5 hours
Albert Zhang(6 hours) : 07/07 2 hours, 07/08 2 hours, 07/09 2 hours
Cody Wang (1 hour) : 07/10 1 hour
Bryan Cao (1.5 hours) : 07/07 0.5 hours, 07/09 0.5 hours, 07/11 0.5 hours
Jesse Lan (2 hours):07/08 2 hours
Mark Arshavsky (2 hours):07/08 2 hours
Stephen Zhu(1 hour): 07/10 1 hour
Jason Xu (7 hours): 07/07 2 hours, 07/08 2 hours, 07/09 2 hours, 07/11 1 1hour
Eileen Zhang (1.5 hour): 07/07 1.5 hours
Terrence Xia (2 hours): 07/07 2 hours
Erin Ding (1 hour): 07/10 1 hour
Brian Kuang (1.5 hours): 07/10 1.5 hours
Gary Mei(1.5 hours): 07/07 1.5 hours
Charlie Mei (1.5 hours): 07/07 1.5 hours
Kaisen Li (4 hours):07/07 2 hours, 07/08 2 hours
Bryan Yang (2 hours):07/08 2 hours
Bryan Cao (1.5 hours): 07/07 1.5 hours
Daniel Huang (3 hours): 07/07 1.5 hours, 07/10 1.5 hours
