On February 25th, the Great Neck AYLUS branch held another Tutoring session from 4:30 to 5:30.We were at the library and participated in a tutoring session where we helped four kids with their studies. Since we had more volunteers than needed, we divided ourselves and some volunteers decided to team up, with two people tutoring […]

Reported by: Alvin Ma Posted by: Jenny Lin On February 22, four members of AYLUS and two parents participated in a Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) packing session. The experience was relatively straightforward as FMSC had already prepared everything we needed, so our main task was simply to show up and follow instructions. We started […]

On March 1st, two members of the AYLUS Idaho Falls Branch helped teach kids about mathematical constant “pi”. Our members had a great time teaching kids different equations and fun facts!         Zach Long volunteered from 1pm to 3pm (total 2 hours) Michael Wu volunteered from 1pm to 3pm with 0.5 hours […]

AYLUS held its weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village on 3/2/25. 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 […]

Basking Ridge American Chinese Associations Alliance held Bernards Township Lunar New Year Festival on Cedar Hills Elementary School, address: 100 Peachtree Rd, Lyons,NJ,07920. AYLUS Basking Ridge Branch is the main volunteer organization supporting the event. Our volunteers arrived as early as 12:30pm, they volunteered to set up the stage, help with dress rehearsal, deliver and […]

Reported by: Ryan Ma Posted by: Jenny Lin On February 21, 2025, we volunteered alongside other AYLUS members at the non-profit organization Feed My Starving Children, starting at 7:15 PM. This Christian nonprofit is dedicated to ending hunger. A total of seven volunteers participated in the event. We packed MannaPack rice, which consists of four […]

The Morris Branch of the Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States (AYLUS) enthusiastically participated in the 2025 AYLUS Poster Contest, celebrating the organization’s 10th anniversary. This contest provided a platform for members to showcase their creativity and reflect on the meaningful contributions AYLUS has made to communities over the past decade. Members of […]

On February 16, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, two members of Alyus Twin Cities volunteered at the Hopkins Library to support its K-pop Program. The event featured a variety of engaging activities, including K-pop-themed games, top loader decorating, bracelet making, and button making. These hands-on activities allowed participants to express their creativity while celebrating […]

On Sunday afternoon, several AYLUS members participated in performances and singalongs at Plymouth Towne Square for the senior residents. Members performed duets on cellos, old timey songs on the piano and other classics. Members brought fruit and snacks as well for everyone to enjoy. It ended with a sing-a-long, which included Can’t Help Falling In […]

On February 23, 2025, a Fullerton Branch member tutored kids ranging from 4th to 6th graders in math. In the class, the kids were taught a new unit.  TOTAL HOURS Eric Wei, David Li:  4 Hours

On February 22, 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 David Li, Michelle Li, Aaron Yoo, Eric Wei, Daisy Wei, Ren […]

Reported by: Zhi Wang Posted by: Karen Li On February 22, 2025, six AYLUS volunteers participated in the (Special Needs Program) at DCFC, spending a joyful and heartwarming time with the children. At the beginning of the event, volunteers and children danced to the music, immersing themselves in the rhythm in a relaxed and cheerful […]

On February 25, 2025, members of the AYLUS Memorial Branch in Houston, Texas volunteered at Memorial Assistance Ministries (1625 Blalock Road, Houston, TX 77080). The volunteers helped out from 3:30-6PM. They helped clean the windows and tidy up the place by re-organizing the clothes to give customers a better shopping experience. Participants: Evan Nguyen (2.5 […]

On 2/25/2025, AYLUS Chapel Hill Member Grace Gao attached branch tags to the heart pillows. These tags, designed by branch president Luna Chen and advisor Yi Lu, aim to raise awareness about AYLUS and its effects, inspiring others to join our cause. We hope the tags will help children and their families feel a connection […]

In February 2025, 6 members of the AYLUS San Clemente Branch donated used batteries to San Juan Capistrano Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center. Recycling batteries is good for the environment because the toxic materials within the batteries can be released into the environment and pose serious threats to not only wildlife but also human health. […]

Whoa! Okay, so check this out—I’ve been messing with custom liquidity pools for years now, and honestly some of what people call “portfolio management” in DeFi feels like a buzzword gym class. My instinct said this would be simple. But then reality hit: impermanent loss, token emissions, governance incentives, and rage quits all show up […]

On February 1, 2025, volunteers came to Fertile Groundworks to help out in the garden. They were responsible for sifting through compost. We were glad to be able to make a difference! Thanks to our volunteers: Nicole Sun (3 hrs) Pranay Chopra (3hrs) Tanish Das (3hrs) Shaun Coutinho (3hrs)

From 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Saturday, February 22, 2025, the Bellaire Branch of AYLUS volunteered at Books for Development (3709 Polk St, Houston, TX, 77003).   Books for Development is a non-profit organization that gathers donated books and uses volunteers to sort and ship them to libraries and schools in developing countries. First […]

On Feb 26th, 2025, two members of the AYLUS-Columbus branch—Brenna Li and Aurick Guo, — held an in-person weekly tutoring session at Abbey Church Village in Dublin, Ohio. This community is part of the National Church Residences and serves low-income families, including new immigrant families. AYLUS-Columbus members assisted two middle school students with their math […]

On Feb 19th, 2025, two members of the AYLUS-Columbus branch—Brenna Li and Estella Li, — held an in-person weekly tutoring session at Abbey Church Village in Dublin, Ohio. This community is part of the National Church Residences and serves low-income families, including new immigrant families. AYLUS-Columbus members assisted four middle school students with their math […]

Reported by Jerry Yang Lake Washington Branch The fifth online 3D modeling camp was hosted on 2/23/2025, and was taught by Jerry Yang with assistance from Kevin Chen from 11:00am to 12:30pm. After a long 2 week break, students had a recap of Blender features such as selecting modes in edit mode, orthographic views, and […]

Reported by Max Yang On February, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00PM, Volunteers from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the Computer for Kids Lab, repairing and cleaning electronic devices in order to prepare them to send to children of low-income families. This helps the kids achieve academic success through possible access […]

   Reported by Andrew Zhou   On February 24, 2025, AYLUS San Diego Branch made sack lunches for Interfaith Community Services. Interfaith Community Services, founded in 1979, is a nonprofit based in San Diego, CA. The organization provides food, housing, employment, treatment and other emergency resources for local people in crisis.  Food is our most basic […]

On February 22, 2025, AYLUS Oakland Gardens Branch members went to Alley Pond Park Forest Restoration at Northern Blvd and 234th Street. This was our 135th event at AYLUS Oakland Gardens. We worked with the Stewardship team to help mulch the trees from 9:30 am to 12 pm. During the event, Max Liu and Rebecca from […]

Reported By Charlotte Chen Posted By Charlotte Chen On the morning of February 23, 2025, AYLUS volunteers gathered at the Lexington County clubhouse for a crochet event for the Loops For Love project. Many volunteers had attended previous events, so they got straight to work right away. Other volunteers were new to the Loops For […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 23rd, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 248th 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 […]

Gave away 2 mulberry, 2 pomegranate starter plants to Houston and Sugar Land locals.

West Essex AYLUS members and My Circle of Friend organized a joint event for those sr. people at Livingston Car One for seasonal greetings. They coordinate over 10 different performance shows and gain a lot of appreciation from the senior center. Members and duration: 5 hours – Rena Wang, Valentina Zheng, Yaming Wang, Isabelle Ni, […]

West Essex AYLUS members held a musical class for special needs children at Livingston Genius academy. Members set up classrooms, taught children’s music and simple percussion instruments to enrich the kids with more music knowledge. Members and duration: 1 hours – Rena Wang, Valentina Zheng, Annie Qi, Yaming Wang, Isabelle Ni, Serena Ni, Owen He

On February 22, 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 their commitment to making a difference, the volunteers arrived early in the morning, eager to dedicate their time and effort to assisting families in need. […]

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 33rd Beast Academy online class in 2024-2025 was on February 17-23, 2025. Beast Academy is a mathematics program for elementary and […]

On Friday February 21st, from 11:00 AM to 13:00 PM, the AYLUS Roslyn Branch had the privilege of performing at the CP Nassau Special Concert Auditorium with the Syosset Fortune Star Band. The Roslyn Music Group is made up of talented musicians from all across Roslyn who dedicated their time to perform and spread music […]

Reported by Kevin Chen This past weekend, our volunteers organized several book drives in the neighborhood, collecting gently used children’s books for our African Library Project. They went door to door, explaining our library project to neighbors and friends. Their book donations provided great encouragement to our volunteers. These volunteers and their contributions are: Neddy […]

On February 23rd, 2025, 2 volunteers from our community branch worked on packaging robotics kits for a local organization, Kits4Cause. These dedicated volunteers carefully packaged BristleBot and Car kits, ensuring each kit was quality and organized. The kits will be used during free robotics workshops at elementary/middle schools, YMCAs, libraries, and more, providing young students […]

On February 22nd, 2025, 2 volunteers from our community branch worked on packaging robotics kits for a local organization, Kits4Cause. These dedicated volunteers carefully packaged BristleBot and Car kits, ensuring each kit was quality and organized. The kits will be used during free robotics workshops at elementary/middle schools, YMCAs, libraries, and more, providing young students […]

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 […]