On Saturday, February 22nd, the Aylus Great Neck Branch Hosted an AAPI event at the Parkville Library. When the volunteers arrived they set up the chairs and tables in preparation for the children. Once the children had arrived Irena Jiang and Zoe Xia began by reading the books “Danbi’s Favorite Day” by Anna Kim and […]

On February 23rd, from 1:30 to 4:30, AYLUS volunteers helped at the Long Island Chinese School located at SUNY Old Westbury.  Over the course of three hours volunteers were dispersed to different classrooms. In each classroom they helped with various tasks, like mentoring students in class, printing extra copies of tests and helping clean up […]

Activity & Impact On February 8, 2025, three members of the AYLUS North Hollywood Branch volunteered at a Compost Hub in Cottonwood Urban Farm from 9am-1pm. This Compost Hub was established by LA Compost and works to reduce landfill waste. Volunteers helped turn food scraps provided from the community into compost to be reused. Activities […]

West Essex AYLUS is partnering with Livingston neighbors helping neighbors for a variety of volunteering and donation opportunities this year. PB&J Sandwiches Drive is going to be an on-going activity to support homeless people in Newark. 02/10/25: Kenneth Wu (4 hours), Carson Yu (2 hours), Jessica Yu (2 hours), Jiahui (Chloe) Wang (2 hours) 02/11/25: […]

On 2/23/2025, West Essex members volunteered in the Love Serving Autism tennis class offered to special needs children at West Orange Tennis Club. The program provides inclusive therapeutic racquet sports instruction for neurodivergent children to enhance communication, motor coordination, life skills, and behavior on and off the courts. In the class, the coaches and volunteers […]

On 2/23/2025, West Essex AYLUS volunteered with Essex Special Skaters to help skaters with disabilities train and practice for the Special Olympics Figure skating program at Codey Arena in West Orange NJ. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and […]

On 2/22/25 West Essex members AYLUS volunteered with the Special Olympic swimming team at JCC Metro West. West Essex members worked as unified partners and assisting coaches to help participants improve their swimming skills. Our members also worked with swimmers with special needs to help them understand the “swimming team” format and learn basic swimming […]

West Essex members Jaden Leung, Hebe Leung, and Zoe Leung volunteered at Taekwondo classes for children on 2/10/25 and 2/14/25. Volunteers coordinated and helped with teaching, warming up, Taekwondo forms, nunchucks, and sparring footwork, so participants who are between 6-15 years old can increase their martial art skills. West Essex members : 3 hours: Zoe […]

West Essex Aylus Volunteers attended Livingston Huaxia Chinese School on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. Volunteer activity/location: Livingston Huaxia Chinese School (Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Livingston). Activities – Teacher Assistant, helped in the main office to figure out the volunteer tasks, helped with the morning traffic direction, and helped around the information desk. Teaching Violin in […]

On 2/22/2025, West Essex Aylus members volunteered at the second annual Heritage Middle School Academic Tournament, a QuizBowl tournament where 20 teams from the surrounding area competed in a 10-round tournament. Volunteers played a crucial role in setting up, running, and cleaning up after the tournament, including reading questions and managing matches. The tournament fostered a supportive environment […]

On February 22nd and 23rd 2025, members of AYLUS Puget Sound hosted two concerts — a 1.5 hour concert at Aegis Living Bellevue Overlake, and a 1 hour concert at Aegis Living Marymoor. Together, they formed our Springtime Spectacle series in 2025. A total of 24 volunteers performed 22 performances at the concert. MC: Victor […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 16th, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 247th online English for the Elderly activity. The goal of this activity is to help elderly men and women from China learn the basics of English so that they’re able to use them in their daily lives. Due to the current […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 9th, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 246th online English for the Elderly activity. The goal of this activity is to help elderly men and women from China learn the basics of English so that they’re able to use them in their daily lives. Due to the current […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 2nd, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 245th online English for the Elderly activity. The goal of this activity is to help elderly men and women from China learn the basics of English so that they’re able to use them in their daily lives. Due to the current […]

Written By Felix Zheng On February 22nd, the Syosset AYLUS organization attended the Long Island Native Plant Initiative to volunteer. On that day, we primarily worked on sifting seeds, watering soil, and separating containers for use with the soil as a placement. We sifted seeds because the greenhouse had extra plants that needed to be […]

Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Chinese Student Association held its annual Chinese New Year Celebrations at Rutgers Nicolas Music Center, address 85 George St.,New Brunswick,NJ,08901 on 2/22/25. About 1000 people attended the celebration. During the celebration, AYLUS Basking Ridge members performed Dance “Rain” and their performance received warm applause from the audience.

Seven AYLUS Basking Ridge members participated in Saturdays in Motion at the GSCY YMCA on 2/22/25. The one volunteer that was new to SIM first participated in a brief new volunteer orientation, while the other two helped set up the gym rooms before the kids got here. Once the session started, each volunteer paired up […]

AYLUS held its weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village on 2/22/25. Today is a slow day. We helped a lady learn to organize her apps and to create folders. Additionally taught how to organize and sort emails, make texts bigeer and easier to read, and print out emails or other things. The Tech director […]

On Friday 2/21/25, two members of AYLUS Newtown presented information about their respective sports. Lucas presented golf during high school and possibilities at reaching the college level to play golf. He also discussed the GHIN rating system in golf and how the index is calculated. He also shared information about nearby courses such as their […]

On Friday 2/21/2025, 3 members of AYLUS taught students ranging from third-graders to ninth-graders in various math topics at the local Chinese school, the Newtown Yardley Chinese School. Lucas Zhang (Event Leader), Albert Chen, and Alex Hu participated, teaching from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Our volunteers taught two different classes, one for younger students and one […]

On Saturday, February 22nd, 2025, Aylus Roslyn volunteered for the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County (CP Nassau) at a group home in Seaford. Today the volunteers did many fun activities with the residents, and everyone had a great time. First, we started by baking sugar cookies. The residents all enjoyed mixing and adding in […]

On Friday, February 21st, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the Roslyn Branch of AYLUS volunteered with NOSH Delivers! to support a community food drive. At their food pantry, they helped pack groceries for adults and lunches for kids, signed members in, and assisted them with picking out food, restocking shelves, breaking down boxes, and […]

On Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the AYLUS Roslyn Branch took initiative to engage in community service for NOSH Delivers— located at Glen Cove— a non- profit organization aiming to supply food to people in need. Right when everyone arrived, they were immediately put to work in either stocking and […]

AYLUS member step out to help people that struggle due to the LA fire. The fires caused many people to lose their homes and belongings, leaving them in need of support. The group wanted to make sure those affected had what they needed during this tough time. This is an super significant activity as it how […]

January 18, 2 participants join to help out at Lakeview Senior Center. here is a lot of shows and food to prepare. The participate came to help deliver foods. Usually, our favorite activity is handing out the cakes. No particular reason, just find it enjoyable. Aiden Ji 3 hour Sansi Wu 3 hour     […]

Three members from the AYLUS San Clemente Branch volunteered at FAM Food Pantry on February 22, 2025, from 9am to 12pm. The three members first sorted snacks into gift bags and placed basic fresh-keeping foods into FAM bags. After that, they helped the staff carry the supplies off the truck, and sorted fruits and vegetables […]

January 25, one participate joined to help out at PEACE Farm at Saddleback Rancho Capistrano. This time the two people’s jobs is to cut bad plant branches off some vegetable. This way the plant will grow better than ever. Usually, this vegetable will be donated to food bank after harvested, maybe homeless shelter and just […]

AYLUS Rancho Santa Margarita branch members volunteered at the PEACE Farm in Saddleback on January 18. Three participants have shown up to help out at and they are tasked with a job that they’re most familiar with, wood chopping. They basically grab large logs layer around, and is a whole pile of them, and then […]

On January 11, three participate joined to help out at PEACE Farm at Saddleback Rancho Capistrano. They work on planter and stuff, I’m personally not there so not sure exactly what they did. Ethan Zhang 2 hour Matthew Zhang 2 hour Aiden Ji 2hour Danny Wang 2 hour              

AYLUS Rancho Santa Margarita branch members volunteered at the PEACE Farm in Saddleback on October 5th. Four shows up to help out. The main task that assigned to the participant was planting and working at the garden. Ethan Zhang 2 hour Matthew Zhang 2 hour Danny Wang 2 hour             […]

On February 22, 2025, AYLUS-Chapel Hill volunteers donated handmade heart pillows to the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill. This non-profit organization supports families of children, many from out of town, who are receiving treatment at UNC hospitals. The donation was warmly received, with the staff expressing sincere gratitude for our support. Starting with our […]

Reported by Karen Zhou Posted by Karen Zhou On February 23rd, we gathered at the Cypress Meadow Clubhouse in Allen, TX, to create pet toys from old clothes for the cats and dogs at the local animal shelter. Since two of our volunteers were new to this activity, Karen Zhou started by teaching them the […]

On the afternoon of February 23 and 24th, members of the AYLUS Morris Branch carried out their monthly donation to the Helping Hands Family Center, located at the local Presbyterian Church in Chatham, NJ. This month, their efforts contributed to the collection of 51 pounds of canned soups, crackers, and pasta, generously donated by local […]

  On Feb.23, 2025, three volunteers visited the Greenway to maintain our adopted trail. They picked up trash that spread around the bushes and trimmed the branches that may hurt people exercising on the trail. The weather was cold, but our volunteers felt warm after cleaning up the Greenway and seeing people enjoy their time […]

  AYLUS Open Sky Book Club Hosts Reading Marathon, Kicking Off World Read Aloud Day, Cary, NC – This summer Reading Marathon was successfully concluded with the praise of many participants. To welcome more participants, we will launch more reading activities that cater to different interests and styles. There are history and culture, celebrity speeches, […]

On Friday, Febuary 7th, from 3-5PM, the Chatham Aylus Branch helped the Library of the Chathams prepare, clean up, and manage the granola fruit cup activity. Two Hours: Emily Kelley Lilah Nydam Ryan Klepper Hawi Ondondo Michael Lin Spencer Mathews  

On Friday, February 21st, from 3 to 5 PM, the Chatham Aylus Branch helped the Library of the Chathams prepare, clean up, and manage the bagel-bite pizza activity. Two Hours: Kevin Wang Lilah Nydam Hannah Huang Leon Wang

On Friday, January 10th, from 3-5PM, the Chatham Aylus Branch helped the Library of the Chathams prepare, clean up, and manage the granola fruit cup activity. Two Hours: Kevin Wang Emily Kelley Lilah Nydam Sabrina Wang Hassun Khan Shashwat Chakraborty Weijie

Once again, on Febuary 17th, 2025, 26 Forsyth County AYLUS chapter members partnered with BioCure, a local student-led organization, and Keep Forsyth County Beautiful for a large-scale roadside cleanup event. This time, 2 long sections of roadside were targerted for cleanup: either side of Bethelview Road. The event was from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, […]

Reported by Andrew Zhou Smiling Stars Reading Program is a new project by AYLUS San Diego and kicked off on September 23, 2023. This program serves a dual purpose: to facilitate meaningful connections with local children with autism and improve their communication skills, while simultaneously improving their foundational reading comprehension skills. Our commitment is not […]

Reported by Andrew Zhou On February 22, 2025, AYLUS collaborated with the Girl Scouts and Cal Martial Hearts to host the 5th Kids Flea Market. The market featured a total of 30 sites, with AYLUS occupying two of them.  Volunteers diligently set up our sites and sold a variety of items including books, clothes, art […]

Reported by Eric Li On February 21, 2025, AYLUS San Diego Branch run the volunteer event at San Diego Food Bank. Since its establishment in 1977, the San Diego Food Bank is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. The San Diego Food Bank provides meals […]

Reported by Andrew Zhou Public libraries are invaluable community institutions that merit both recognition and unwavering support. Our local public library, Pacific Highlands Ranch Library, recently opened on November 9, 2024. The new library is an 18,000 square foot building designed to fit the changing needs of a modern neighborhood. It has a bookstore that […]

During the month of February, volunteers who were part of the Aylus Raritan Valley Branch held a food drive for the Replenish organization. Replenish is an organization that strives to help prevent hunger in various communities. Each member brought in 15 items, resulting in a grand total of 75 items! Everyone who participated showed their […]

  On Feb.22, 2025,  Greater Triangle Branch volunteers worked as teacher assistants at Cary Learning Academy. We were assigned different classes to help younger students with Math, English, and Lego Design. Volunteers prepared materials the teacher would need in class, helped the kids with their questions during the class, and cleaned up the classroom afterward. […]

2/19 PS2 Lunar New Year Celebration Location:122 Henry St, New York, NY 10002 AYLUS Great Neck volunteered at a Lunar New Year celebration at PS2 along with other volunteers. Volunteers arrived early to help set up and get ready for the main event. The celebration was spilt into two part, the first part was the […]

Whoa! I remember the first time I tried to route a large fill through a decentralized orderbook—what a mess. Slippage ate the trade, gas spiked, and I sat there thinking: there has to be a better way. This piece is about that better way. It’s about how a browser extension that combines CEX liquidity routing, […]

Reported by Deyang Liu Posted by Jenny Wang On the afternoon of February 15th, we gathered at the Village of White Rock Creek for a pet toy crafting session. Each of our volunteers brought clean, pure cotton clothing, cut them into strips, and wove them into pet supplies. Although there were only four participants in […]

Reported by Tianlu Zhou Posted by Jenny Wang On February 9th, ARTS IN ACTION AYLUS Group hosted a meaningful “Busy Book” volunteer event at 7605 S Ballantrae Dr, McKinney, TX, led by Tianlu Zhou. Eight volunteers gathered to create 50 hand-crafted Busy Books—interactive books and coloring pages designed to bring joy and comfort to children […]

On February 15, 2025, youth volunteers from the AYLUS Rancho Cucamonga Branch gathered at the ALFC Generosity Center in Rancho Cucamonga for another impactful day of community service. United by a shared commitment to helping others, the volunteers arrived early in the morning, eager to dedicate their time and effort to supporting families in need. […]

Reported By Charlotte Chen Posted By Charlotte Chen On the morning of February 16th, 2025, AYLUS Frisco & Plano Branch volunteers gathered at the Lexington County clubhouse for a volunteer event for the Loops For Love Project. Some new volunteers learned how to crochet hats from the older volunteers and managed to make decent progress […]

On February 15 2025, members of AYLUS worked with the local soup of the kitchen to help and serve lunch for local homeless and low income family. The volunteers worked in the kitchen, served lunch and played music for the local community. Volunteers: 3.5 hours: Grace Wang, Sophia Cong 4.5 hours: Emma Zhang, Muling Lu, […]

On February 16, 2025, Fullerton Branch members tutored kids ranging from 5th to 6th graders in Coding. They were able to teach the kids the fundamental basics for coding. David Li, Eric Wei:  4 Hours

On February 15, 2025, AYLUS Fullerton Branch members helped distribute and load food at the St. Vincent De Paul Pantry. They aided with several tasks including distributing, breaking down boxes, and packaging food. They aided over 100 families in the Fullerton Area. TOTAL HOURS Eric Wei Daisy Wei, Ren zhi Pei, David Li, Michelle Li:  […]

On February 10, 2025, Fullerton Branch members spent their day collecting items such as clothing, books, etc. to donate to the salvation army. In doing so, they were able to provide the items that families in need are struggling to obtain. TOTAL HOURS Ethan Li, Aaron Yoo:  4 Hours

On Monday, February 17th, from 9am to 1pm, we came as volunteers to 15 Hill St, Glen Cove to help the public welfare organization Nosh Delivers, a non-profit food pantry that aims to help families in need of food. After we arrived, our first task was to make NOSH bags, in which various non-perishable foods […]

On Thursday, February 20, 2025, from 9:00AM to 1:00PM, the AYLUS Roslyn Branch volunteered with NOSH Delivers. NOSH Delivers is a food pantry designed toprovide people with food and items they need. During this cold winter day, all of the customers were huddled in the middle of the pantry, waiting to be escorted through the […]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the AYLUS Roslyn Branch volunteered with NOSH Delivers, a non-profit organization in Glen Cove that aims to help families struggling with food insecurity. Their mission is to improve the well-being of the North Shore community by increasing access to food, as well as basic […]

On Feb 1st, the East Pittsburgh AYLUS Branch, helped volunteer at the Murrysville Community library with their lunar new year celebration. Tthe East Pittsburgh AYLUS Branch was primarily involved with creating various shapes and objects with colored balloons. Among the favorites were balloon swords, flowers, and turtles. Hours: Joshua Chen, Eliot Chen, Evan Chen, Jason […]

On February 16 2025, a member of the AYLUS Buffalo Branch worked at the Buffalo Museum of Science from 9:45AM to 12:45PM. There was a live event/performance at the auditorium. He checked people’s tickets and sat them down, along with giving them directions. Volunteers: 3 hours: Kevin Zou

On February 14 2025, the AYLUS Greater Buffalo branch, in partnership with Bridges from Boarders and Buffalo Chess Association, launched BFB#OneWorldChessClub. The program aims to promote diversity, inclusion, and friendships among people of different ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities through the game of chess. This program is dedicated to creating a welcoming and supportive environment where […]

On February 14 and 28 2025, the members of the Greater Buffalo branch are proud to help immigrants and refugee find a supportive community in Buffalo. The AYLUS Instrumental Team volunteered with Bridges From Borders in their OneWorld Choir to help participants create long-lasting relationships that extend far beyond the choir’s rehearsals. Volunteers created music […]

On January 31, the AYLUS Greater Buffalo branch, in partnership with Bridges from Boarders and Buffalo Chess Association, launched BFB#OneWorldChessClub. The program aims to promote diversity, inclusion, and friendships among people of different ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities through the game of chess. This program is dedicated to creating a welcoming and supportive environment where individuals, […]

Reported by Eric Xie  AYLUS San Diego Committee kicked off the Beast Academy online class in 2020 during the COVID-19 period. During 2024-2025, we continue cooperating with Libraries of Love to raise funds. The 32nd Beast Academy online class in 2024-2025 was on February 10-16, 2025. Beast Academy is a mathematics program for elementary and […]

Okay, so check this out—I’ve sat through more slide decks than I can count. Wow! Some were great. Some were bloated. Really? Yes. Many presentations felt like a bad movie: long, wandering, and forgettable. My instinct said there had to be a better way. Over years of teaching teams and rebuilding decks at midnight, I […]

Reported by John Zhang Posted by Daniel Wang All of our AYLUS volunteers came together to collect clothes from their neighborhood and friends. After collecting many clothes from our community we all came together on 2/15/25 to donate the clothes to the GoodWill store. With all our combined donations we can make a big impact […]

Reported by John Zhang Posted by Daniel Wang Our amazing AYLUS volunteers came together to collect batteries from their neighbors. Not only did the eliminate the waste of batteries the important part of it is saving earths natural resources that we might regret wasting in the future. All our AYLUS volunteers took their time and […]

Reported by Alvin Ma Posted by Daniel Wang On February 14, three members of AYLUS and two parents participated in a Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) packing session. The process was smooth and well-organized, as FMSC had everything set up in advance—all we had to do was show up and help. We began in a […]