On March 4, 2023, AYLUS members volunteered at the annual Pearland Spring Festival. Students worked at different booths and carnival games around Independence Park and helped set up and take down the festival. Some of the activities included bounce houses, advertising booths, and even a children’s supermarket. Overall, the event was a great success, with […]

On March 11, 2023, AYLUS Pearland made cotton candy and popcorn at the Pearland West Library.  This session is to prepare for the ED White Health Fair and Family Event in April. AYLUS Pearland volunteers set up and calibrated the machines and then tested out different recipes.  To make popcorn, put 3 tablespoons of popcorn […]

AYLUS Pearland volunteers practiced painting faces on Monday, March 13, 2023, from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at the Pearland West Library to prepare for several big events in April. Volunteers arrived on time and helped with set up. They first selected facepainting themes that suitable for Spring events. Then they searched and selected video […]

On March 4th, 2023, AYLUS Pearland volunteered at Ed White Elementary, to help students with math. Students and tutors worked on some textbooks. Students answered the practice problems that were available and were checked by the tutor. Whiteboards were utilized as well to come up with math problems for the students to solve. The volunteers […]

On February 26th, AYLUS volunteers organized a seed exchange event to kick off the annual plant sale fundraiser. The event was designed to encourage people to donate seeds and receive different varieties of seeds in return. The AYLUS volunteers were very dedicated and arrived early in the morning at the Sunrise Lake Community Club to […]

On February 26, 2023, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, AYLUS Pearland officers held a meeting with branch board members to discuss and plan the officer elections in late March or early April. We decided on the format and dates of the election, and discussed some other issues related to future AYLUS Pearland activities. The election […]

On February 25, 2023, AYLUS hosted its second annual high school forums at the West Pearland Library. Like the previous year, the event featured a wide variety of high school students to answer questions based around course selection and extracurricular activities. Speakers were Irene Shi, Kathy Xie, Alex and William Sun, Ellie Kim, Nova Mu, […]

AYLUS Pearland volunteered at the Old Pearland Farmers’ Market on Saturday, February 18, 2023, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and set up a fundraising booth for SMILE’s laptop donation drive. Volunteers arrived early to help set up the front desk and the AYLUS fundraising booth. Items for sale were plush pillows, backpacks and pillowcases […]

On February 18th and 25th, 2023, AYLUS volunteers Nova Mu, ShaoTan Liu, Erica Gao, and Anne Wong went to E.D White elementary school to tutor kids. After entering the cafeteria, each volunteer was assigned a specific child to help with either mathematics or English. The children were given educational activities to work through in the […]

On February 11, AYLUS members gathered together in the Pearland West Library to discuss the Lunar New Year festival volunteering experience held on Jan. 21. Those who volunteered at the festival either helped build the center-stage set, directed traffic or ran different errands to help the vendors. Although the festival was successful in hosting many […]

AYLUS Pearland and Pearland Chinese Association launched the donation drive for the Turkish earthquake victims on February 10th, 2023.  Volunteers began collecting new clothes, diapers, tents, sleeping bags, blankets, dry food at several drop off locations run by AYLUS members. The organizer also received a lot of new blankets, winter boots and sweaters from a […]

Ed White Elementary School invited AYLUS Pearland to participate in their Lunar New Year event on February 3, 2023. Since that day was a Friday, only parent advisors were able to join the celebration, and AYLUS Pearland volunteers prepared Lunar New Year gifts such as stickers and traditional Lunar New Year window decorations for each […]

On February 11, 2023, Pearland AYLUS volunteers went to Ed White Elementary School in Houston to tutor students. Some volunteers were given a grade level where they helped them with math work, such as graphs and division. The other volunteers played math games like dominos and flashcards in the cafeteria. Each kid was given a […]

On Saturday, January 28, 2023, 11 members of AYLUS Pearland branch volunteered at Ed White Elementary School. The volunteers were assigned to different students from 3rd -5th grade and tutored them in math, helping the students with adding and subtracting as well as teaching them how to convert fractions. With the help from the volunteers, the […]

On Saturday, January 21, 2023, AYLUS, partnered with the Pearland Chinese Association, was able to hold their annual Lunar New Year celebration for the first year coming back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with Shawn Xiao, the gala was hosted by four AYLUS members: Kara Li, Tina Dong, Edwin Gao, and Derek Zhu. Starting January […]

As AYLUS grows in members, events, and connections, there grows a new requirement for efficient means of surveys for large groups of people. One such example is the inclusion of a system of annual, electronically submitted waiver forms, which negates the need for the previously inefficient and inconvenient system of organizing waivers at each individual […]

In January, AYLUS Pearland members are actively preparing for the first Pearland Lunar New Year hosted by the Pearland Chinese Association and AYLUS Pearland. Hundreds of visitors are expected to attend this event. AYLUS Pearland members were the main volunteer force for the event and their tasks included distributing boba tea and various snacks, making […]

From September 2022 to January 2023, four AYLUS Pearland members Aila Jiang, Wendy Yin, William Sun, and Alexander Sun, have attended weekly virtual zoom training sessions to learn how to advocate mental well-being and healthy lifestyle among Asian American community. This is an internship program funded by Hogg Foundation and is actively promoted by AYLUS […]

On January 21st, 2023, from 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm, AYLUS Pearland teamed up with Pearland Chinese Association to host the 3rd Pearland Lunar New Year Gala at Pearland Junior High West. Our volunteers worked hard to co-host and manage the night gala. Some of the jobs they covered included serving as door guards, dressing up […]

Pearland AYLUS members helped set the stage for the Pearland Lunar New Year Gala hosted on the Saturday, January 21st. The main prop they made was a cherry blossom tree, with the flowers made from party paper rolls. Pearland AYLUS members worked hard to make and assemble the tree. The cherry blossom tree was an […]

On January 21st, 2023, AYLUS Pearland worked with Pearland Chinese Association to host and set up a Lunar New Year celebration. At 11 am, the volunteers began decorating the auditorium, helping with setting up stage props and inflating balloons. At 1 pm, they began to set up the cafeteria festival, setting game area and tables […]

On Saturday January 14th, AYLUS volunteers and SMILE students practiced their performance for the upcoming Lunar New Year Gala at the West Pearland Library from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Though this was the first time the volunteers and the SMILE students practiced together, they played to near perfection by the end of the rehearsal. […]

On January 2nd, AYLUS Pearland members Aila Jiang, Alex Sun, William Sun, and Wendy Yin shared their internship projects with the branch. The four officers and leads are interns at the Light and Salt Association, whom AYLUS has been working closely with for almost 3 years. The interns are learning about community advocacy and will […]

AYLUS Pearland co-sponsored the first Dawson Dash Family Event on Jan 7th, 2023 by encouraging active involvement in AYLUS families through either racing or volunteering. It was also a follow-up event for the Bridging the Intergenerational Gap project that was launched by AYLUS Pearland in September 2022. A total of 30 people from more than […]

On the 21 st  of December 2022 AYLUS Pearland volunteered at the SMILE program at Light and Salt Association’s Special Needs Care Center. The SMILE program was designed to make people with special needs learn various life skills in a safe environment. It often includes activities such as the arts or music. On the 21st […]

On December 27, 2022, AYLUS Pearland hosted a face painting and balloon twisting workshop at the Westside Library from 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The event was open to the community and aimed to promote the upcoming Pearland Lunar New Year Festival. At the workshop, volunteers shared multiple paint pallets to create Chinese New Year […]

On December 21st, Dr. Chang, the principal of Ed White Elementary School, invited AYLUS volunteers to watch their Winter Showcase to celebrate the holiday season along with the students and faculty. It was a joyful performance with the volunteers watching students from all grade levels singing and dancing in multiple holiday numbers. The volunteers even […]

December 3rd, 2022, AYLUS Pearland held a TA meeting for junior members who participate in the online teaching. The experienced TAs shared their stories on the hardships and tips to become more capable of adapting to challenging moments while teaching. They discussed different methods of helping with young students being unable to focus, uninterested in […]

Throughout the month of December, seven AYLUS members led the continuation of our 2023 calendar preparations. Volunteers attended meetings and worked with design programs to create the model of the calendar. Each member spent time and effort collecting photos and adhering to the requirements of the board in order to develop the design. Afterward, the […]

AYLUS Pearland members gathered together on 12/16 to prepare holiday gifts for seniors and kids. The gifts were for both the Landing at Watercrest, an Assisted Living center, Ronald McDonald House, a residential place for children with cancer, SMILE Project, a special needs day program, and lastly for Kidz Harbor, a facility to help abandoned […]

AYLUS volunteers performed at the Landings at Watercrest senior care center on December 20 th 2022. Volunteers spent time organizing acts and eventually met to combine all nine acts into a full performance for the residents of the senior home. We aimed to spread holiday joy to everyone watching, collecting a variety of acts from […]

On December 10, 2022, AYLUS volunteered with the Art for Change project at the Houston Art Festival. Volunteers sold Christmas cards made by the special needs students at SMILE program to raise money for the Art for Change fundraiser. The $196 raised from this event will help to equip special needs classrooms with laptops and […]

On December 17th, 2022 AYLUS Pearland members volunteered at the Old Pearland Farmers Market and ran a fundraiser stand for SNCC, a special needs caring center created by the Light and Salt Association. The Old Pearland Farmers Market is an event hosted by the Pearland Park and Recreation Department on the 3rd weekend of every […]

On December 17, 2022, Pearland AYLUS volunteers went to Ed White Elementary School to tutor kids. Each volunteer was paired up with one kid — since there were a lot of volunteers from other branches this time as well — at individual cafeteria tables and tutored the kids with important math concepts like multiplication, and […]

On Dec. 11th 2022, at AYLUS Pearland’s first collaboration donation drive with Dawson CmPS team Project Food for Thought, we collected produce scraps and received many contributions. We helped design social media posts and organize/sort the produce donated. The volunteers dropped off bags of compost for us to collect as well as organized scraps and […]

On December 3, 2022, AYLUS Pearland Volunteers went to ED White Elementary school to tutor the students from 3rd -5th grade. ED White Elementary is located in a multicultural neighborhood. They have a long-term program that helps students from disadvantaged families with Math or Reading. AYLUS volunteers were assigned to different students and helped them with […]

In order to encourage AYLUS members across all the AYLUS branches to share their volunteer experiences, the AYLUS national board hosted a national essay contest, which is due on November 30th, 2022. The Great Princeton Branch of AYLUS sponsored the contest by providing $1,000 award to the winners. All the essays submitted will be reviewed […]

On Sunday, November 27th, 2022, members of the Pearland Branch volunteers gathered at the Silverlake park to pack homeless care kits and candy for Mexican children. Meanwhile they also ran a fundraiser for SMILE from 3pm to 5pm. AYLUS volunteers worked with kids from the community to pack the donated toiletries, socks, band aids, wipes, […]

During the early, humid morning of Thanksgiving (11/24/2022), AYLUS Pearland volunteers gathered near Independence Park and Pearland Parkway to help organize and distribute items for Pearland Turkey Trot. AYLUS volunteers helped out at the event from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM. At the start, volunteers helped set up tables, filled paper cups with water, and […]

Throughout the month of November, AYLUS members spent time attending several planning meetings, sorting through countless photos, and designing the 2023 AYLUS calendar. Each member worked diligently to find photos that showcased the amazing AYLUS environment, and best represented all of our members. In our meetings, we talked about design details and how to ensure […]