Reported by Derek Ying
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AYLUS San Diego Committee kicked off the Beast Academy online class in 2020 during the COVID-19 period. During 2025-2026, we continue cooperating with Libraries of Love to raise funds. The 69th Beast Academy online class in 2025-2026 was on December 15-December 21, 2025.
Beast Academy is a mathematics program for elementary and middle school students, and highly qualified high school volunteers will be teaching the Beast Academy curriculum. Currently at the San Diego Branch, enough students have signed up for this course for it to be offered in five levels: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Through tutoring sessions hosted virtually over Zoom, our volunteers teach students numerous informative mathematical concepts that help to bolster problem-solving skills and improve their mathematical knowledge.
The distinguishing factor of this activity is that in the Beast Academy program, all participants are in this for a great cause. All proceeds from the tutoring sessions will go to support the Libraries of Love, a project to build libraries for K-8 kids in Africa and provide books to them. Through this activity, our volunteers strive to create a positive impact on the world using their own abilities; with their hard work and support, we all see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Despite it being finals week and the Christmas holiday, 5 groups completed this week’s course.
6 students attended the Beast Academy Activity on December 15-December 21. Overall, there were 11 participants in the program.
Dylan Yang taught Level 3 Beast Academy curriculum for 2.0 hrs on December 19, 2025
Serena Liu taught Level 2 Beast Academy curriculum for 2.0 hrs on December 20, 2025
David Lian taught Level 2 Beast Academy curriculum for 2.0 hrs on December 18, 2025
Derek Ying taught Level 4 Beast Academy curriculum for 2.0 hrs on December 18, 2025
Brianna Zhang taught Level 5 Beast Academy curriculum for 2.0 hrs on December 20, 2025
