On October 21, AYLUS Sugar Land continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. This session had one set with small breaks in between each exercise. The set aimed to strengthen legs with squats; improve stamina with burpees, high knees, and mountain climbers; and improve core muscles with plank jacks and bridge ups. Participating […]

On October 21, the Sugar Land Branch launched a nationwide butterfly garden construction project via the Environment Committee. Despite the ongoing national health crisis, it is important not to let our most prized possession–the environment–fall into disarray. Among the best ways to do so, especially during this time of year, is by building a butterfly […]

On Oct, 20, 2020, we started a new topic unit on “Should kids have privacy online”. We discussed the topic and had lots of fun. Reported time: Oct 20: 1.5 hours (Coach: Andrew) Reported by Andrew Lian

On October 18, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance of the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Specifically, members continued developing the trenches and expanding the system throughout the garden. Members dug trenches leading out of the main irrigation trench dug two weeks before to allow all plants in the garden to receive water via the […]

On October 17, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. In this session, participants worked especially on arms and core muscles. Instructors led participants through pushups and push up burpees for arm strengthening and planks, situps, and crunches for core strengthening. Scattered through the workout were some cardio movements, for example […]

On October 14, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home program. The session aimed to help participants work on their full body. Instructors led participants through a full body set consisting of burpees, bicep curls, mt climbers, pushups, high knees, shoulder raises, jumping backs, and tricep dips. Next, they strengthened their core […]

Our 7th unit is from 10/1/2020 to 10/31/2020, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program that teaches young children […]

On October 11, the Sugar Land Branch continued its Memorial Park Butterfly Garden maintenance project. The focus this time was ensuring the previously established irrigation mechanic was functioning smoothly. Ensuring the trenches were allowing for adequate water flow and fixing any bottlenecks in the system was the primary goal. The participating member was Albon Wu. […]

On October 10, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home program. The session aimed to help participants work on their full body. Instructors led participants through an arm stretch and warm-up. Next, Isabella demonstrated cardio movements including burpees, high knees, and jumping jacks. Following, Nicole led participants through exercises that strengthen core […]

Our 7th unit is from 10/1/2020 to 10/31/2020, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program that teaches young children […]

On October 7, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home program. The session aimed to help participants work on their arms and legs. Instructors led participants through an leg set consisting of high knees, squats, and different lunges.. Next, Elliott demonstrated arm movements of big and small arms circles forward and backward. […]

On October 6, the Sugar Land Branch produced its fourth virtual concert. Due to members’ inability to perform in person for their local nursing home, performers instead prerecorded their pieces. Emma Jiang and Albon Wu edited the individual recordings together to create a single concert. The seniors greatly enjoyed the concert, saying that the performances […]

On Oct 6th, we had another round of tournament. Zaizai & Linus vs Ethan and Sarena. We also invited Nolan as a student Judge. All the students did an excellent job! In breakout rooms, other teams are working on further developing their cases for the their round.  This week, we also welcomed a new member, […]

On October 4, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance of the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. This week primarily focused on continuing to develop the trench irrigation system started weeks prior. Members worked on digging out the main loop of trenches from which the system would branch out. By the end of the volunteering, the […]

On October 3, Sugar Land Branch continued the exercise sessions. Instructors first lead participants through a high-knee and butt-kick warm up. In the leg workout, instructors introduced two new exercises: skater jumps and froggers. The set also consisted of side lunges, squats, and bridge-ups to build muscles in the legs. Instructors then led participants through […]

On October 1st, we had a round of debate for the tournament I hosted for the kids. The students enjoyed the debate round and we also had Sherry Huang and Ray Tian here for coaching the parallel sessions.  Meeting time: 1.5 hour (Andrew/Ray/Sherry) Reported by Andrew Lian

On 5th week of 6th unit from 9/27 to 9/30, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Zarina, Derek and Annabelle joined as presenters. Lesson 17 had been taught by Zarina on 9/27, Lesson 18 had been taught by Derek on 9/28, Lesson 19 had been taught by Annabelle on 9/30. Reported by Alvin Zhou

There was a new online lesson had been established by Alvin Zhou at Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, the Intensive Reading,  It was targeting 4th-5th graders, and detail of numerous of books would be talked as a 6-8 person group. The first four books those we will discuss are Refugee by Alan Gratz, Wonder […]

On September 27, the Sugar Land Branch continued its butterfly garden maintenance project. This week focused mostly on digging the trenches that would form an irrigation system. This time, members made considerable progress, successfully digging a trench across a whole section of land. This is a productive step towards building a substantial, thorough irrigation system. […]

On 4th week of 6th unit from 9/20 to 9/26, Alvin organized meetings and taught lesson 16 on 9/25, meanwhile Nathan, Ethan and Emily joined as presenters. Lesson 13 had been taught by Nathan on 9/20, Lesson 14 had been taught by Ethan on 9/21, Lesson 15 had been taught by Emily on 9/23. Reported […]

On September 22nd, we worked together to finalize this topic unit. The coaches provided feedback and suggestions to the students to further polish their cases. We are ready for the tournament next week!  We also welcomed a new student this week. Club meeting: 9/22/2020, 1.5 hours; new student orientation: 9/24/2020 1 hour Reported by Andrew […]

On September 19, Sugar Land Branch continued the  Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. The 30 minute session consisted of an ab workout with 6 different movements and an exercise set consisting of alterations between pushups and plank holds. At the end, participants did a 1 minute wall sit to test their leg strength. […]

On 3rd week of 6th unit from 9/13 to 9/19, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Mathew, Fiona, Sarena and Erin joined as presenters. Lesson 9 had been taught by Mathew on 9/13, Lesson 10 had been taught by Fiona on 9/14, Lesson 11 had been taught by Sarena on 9/16, Lesson 12 had been taught by […]

On September 16, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members led participants through a whole body set consisting of pushups, tricep dips, leg raises, squats, bridge ups, and calf raises. With their blood pumping, participants followed instructors in doing some fast jogging, high knees and butt kicks. The […]

We now officially moved our meeting time to Tuesdays for this semester. On September 15th, we continually worked on the topic about online education. We conducted peer reviews on the cases. The meeting time is 1.5 hour. Reported by Andrew Lian

On September 13, the Sugar Land Branch continued its garden maintenance project. This week’s session focused mostly on developing the irrigation system that started last week. Members used a trowel to clear out a trench following the path of some large plants and used the windmill to direct water into the trench. This would remove […]

On September 12, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members led participants through a warm-up consisting of jumping jacks, lounge jumps, lounge holds, high knees, and shoulder rolls to the beat of “Head and Heart”. With their blood pumping, participants followed instructors in doing some cardio exercises, front, […]

On 2nd week of 6th unit from 9/6 to 9/12, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Zarina, Shaopan, Brianna and Philina joined as presenters. Lesson 5 had been taught by Zarina on 9/6, Lesson 6 had been taught by Shaopan on 9/7, Lesson 7 had been taught by Brianna on 9/9, Lesson 8 had been taught by […]

On September 9, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members lead participants through a warm-up consisting of from/back and side to side jumps. Following, members lead participants through an arm set consisting of forward/backward big and small arm circles. Finally, the last set was an ab set, which […]

On September 7, the Sugar Land Branch continued its garden maintenance at the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. As usual, members pulled weeds to clear room for the flowering plants. As fall has started to arrive, all plants in the garden have begun to grow exponentially, weeds included. Members cleared a large pile of weeds and […]

On September 5, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Participants first followed along for a cardio warm-up to get their blood pumping. Next, instructors lead participants through leg and calf strengthening exercises, the frying fish movement, and lastly a leg raise exercise to the beat of the music. […]

Our 6th unit from 8/30/2020 to 9/30/2020, has ended very quickly and the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program […]

On September 5th, we started a new debate club activity.  We did SPAR (Spontaneous Argumentation) debate with the students and we discussed how to do research. SPAR debate is a good way for new students to participate in debates. We divided the students into two groups and brainstormed together for arguments and cases. We had […]

On September 2, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Members lead participants through squats, burpees, jumping jacks, and various planks/push up exercises. Participants used weights, backpacks, or books to practice shoulder raises. Next, they followed the instructors in an ab workout. The session lasted 30 minutes and had […]

On August 29th, the Debate Committee Chair Andrew Lian invited a guest coach, Ray Tian, joining the meeting. Ray has been very beneficial and has provided good suggestions to the students. We went over the cases together and discussed future plans for the club. Reported by Andrew Lian

On August 29, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. AYLUS members led participants through alternate supermans and superman movements to warm up arms and legs. Participants used weights, backpacks, or books to practice bicep curls and shoulder raises. Next, they followed instructors in a cardio and ab workout. […]

As August has come to a close, the Sugar Land Branch has continued its international academic tutoring lessons. On 4th week of 5th unit from 8/23 to 8/29, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile AYLUS members Shaopan and Erin joined as presenters. All the c’s and All the u’s had been taught to Pre-K students on 8/24/2020 […]

On August 29, the Sugar Land Branch continued its weekly maintenance of the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. The park development manager was present this time to further instruct members on future project ideas like building an irrigation system. Members focused on pulling weeds using a new method and placing them over unwanted plants […]

The Sugar Land Branch welcomed new instructors Jialu and Elliott in teaching Wednesday classes. Before their first session teaching, previous instructor Nicole Wu hosted a meeting with new instructors teaching them how to explain and demonstrate movements, how to run the session on an online setting, how to time exercises, when to play music, etc.  […]

Since the new semester has started, the club weekly meetings have been moved the Saturdays. On August 22nd, the students were sent to different break rooms with their partners to work on their cases.  The coach went through each room to check what research they have done over the past days and to go over […]