On June 8, the Sugar Land Branch held a leadership meeting to discuss current and upcoming events. The meeting covered future projects, leadership expectations, and ideas for officers to help take initiative. This put all members of the branch’s leadership committee on the same page regarding regular branch operations and two future events, namely the […]

On June 7, the Sugar Land Branch continued its weekly music tutoring project. This week mostly focused on music theory and generalizing previously established left-hand technique to different strings and rhythms.

World Environment Day is one of the United Nation’s most important days. It is observed on the 5th of June annually and it is a day during which, for over forty years, people from all of the world have advocated and acted for a healthy environment. The day of celebration focuses on raising awareness and […]

On May 31, the Sugar Land Branch continued its music tutoring project. This week’s lesson involved more complex rhythms and patterns, further developing left-hand technique and rhythmic intuition. Like previous weeks, this week’s session expanded on the content of previous weeks, expanding upon prior, simpler rhythms and notes to steadily build technique.      

Starting from April 16, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program led by Junior Leader Alvin Zhou offered free online Basketball lessons for kids who want to have a healthy body and learn more moves during the COVID – 19 quarantine. This program teaches kids new Basketball moves each lesson. The lessons are 40 minutes […]

The debate club in the Sugar Land Branch continues to grow this month. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Andrew is a seventh grade student from Sartartia Middle School and Spidersmart Team Debate. He founded the club during […]

On May 26, the Sugar Land Branch continued maintaining the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Members pulled weeds, removed dried branches, and cleared areas around plants to give them space to grow. By now, the previously planted trees had started blooming, as shown below. The participating members were: Serena Li, Yijia Jiang, and Albon Wu.

Our 2nd unit from 4/27/2020 to 5/25/2020, 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. Last unit, Alvin Zhou and Shaopan Gao provided the preschoolers phonic, math, and geography lessons. Later on, Erin H, Philina […]

On May 24, the Sugar Land Branch continued its music tutoring project. This week’s lesson built on last week’s topics of introductory music theory, covering more complex rhythms and melodies.

On May 18, the Sugar Land Branch continued its music tutoring project. Similar to the previous week, this week’s lesson emphasized music theory and reading printed music. The knowledge from previous weeks was built upon in this week’s session, which wrapped up the principles of elementary music theory and fundamental violin technique.

On May 10th, the Sugar Land Branch continued maintaining the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. By now, many earlier planted flowers have begun to blossom (see below), and due to former gardening work, the young trees planted months prior have also grown substantially. A plant identifying app was used this time to identify more types of […]

On May 10, the Sugar Land Branch continued its music tutoring program. This week’s lesson focused on music theory and its applications to violin playing. Basic concepts of music theory including time signature, counting, musical symbols, and other rhythmic aspects of music reading were covered during the session. Several exercises were taught which combined previous […]

On May 4, the Sugar Land Branch continued its music tutoring project launched in late April. The focus of the class was on right-hand violin technique, and the student received several tips for practicing correct form. The lesson also covered how to make a clear sound while maintaining accurate right-hand technique.

On May 1, the Sugar Land Branch continued its project to clean and maintain the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. As the number of the park’s visitors has grown, so has the amount of surface covered by the increasingly expanding weeds. These fast-growing weeds oftentimes disrupt tree growth, so it was imperative that members removed them […]

During the present quarantine, many music students have been unable to attend lessons, both at school and otherwise in person. Without consistent instruction, skills like those required to play violin can become dull over time, hindering improvement. To alleviate this issue, on May 1st, the Sugar Land Branch launched a project to tutor young violinists […]

Starting from April 16, Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program led by Junior Leader Alvin Zhou began offering free weekly basketball lessons for kids who wanted some exercise during the COVID-19 quarantine. This program is mainly about ball handling and muscle development in children. There is a class every Thursday that lasts for 40 minutes, […]

On April 7th, the Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club to teach elementary students basic skills on debating and public speaking led by Andrew Lian. Through the club, he coaches a class of students interested in debate from schools around the area, including Walker Station Elementary, Commonwealth Elementary, Cornerstone Elementary, Colony Meadows Elementary, Colony […]

On April 26, members of the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program collected 350 children’s and adult’s surgical masks and plan to donate them to Texas Children’s Hospital. This donation will be highly effective, supplying the hospital with additional masks to protect the hospital’s doctors, patients, and visitors from coronavirus infection. The participating members were: […]

Starting from March 30, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program led by Junior Leader Alvin Zhou offered free weekly math, geometry, phonics, and reading lessons for kids in preschool every Monday and Friday through the online platform Zoom. Each class lasted for 45 minutes, with an average of 25+ students per lesson from Canada, […]

All throughout April, the Sugar Land Branch continued its tutoring project launched late February to assist during widespread quarantines in China caused by COVID-19. One-on-one tutoring helped several Chinese students in English comprehension, pronunciation, and listening. After many weeks of tutoring, these longtime students were now far more fluent in English than before and were […]

On April 15, the Sugar Land Branch continued to clean and maintain the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Although there have been significantly less visitors to the park during this time, the garden’s plants have still been growing relentlessly. In particular, weeds had covered a large portion of the ground’s surface, and there were countless dead […]

On March 29, the Sugar Land Branch donated a large amount of cleaning equipment to the nursing home where they usually perform weekly concerts to help them and their environment remain clean, preventing the spread of COVID-19. Among the cleaning supplies were: several bottles of rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide, several containers of Clorox wipes, […]

On March 29, the Sugar Land Branch continued the previous garden work completed on the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. With the arrival of spring, many weeds had started to grow and cover large swaths of the garden’s ground. Excess dead branches were trimmed and removed, and the area was cleared of many weeds that hindered […]

Through the March, Sugar Land Branch continues tutoring the students from Wuhan who have been under lockdown since January. Members helped the students with their reading, speaking, and other homework. Additionally, lessons involving Western culture were implemented into the lessons. The Zoom platform was used for more interactive learning. The participating members were Albon Wu, […]

As coronavirus cases in the Houston area continue to grow, the severe shortage of personal protective equipment such as surgical gowns, gloves and masks have become increasingly common in local hospitals. Masks especially have been desperately needed by physicians and hospitals. The Sugar Land branch, teamed up with a local Chinese community group, put a […]

On March 18, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program led by our branch’s Junior Leader Alvin Zhou aided seniors in the area during the present coronavirus outbreak. All are prone to the effects of the virus, but seniors in particular are more vulnerable to its dangerous nature. Furthermore, when living away from their family, […]

On March 17, while schools in the area were closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Sugar Land Branch continued maintaining the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. In continuation of the original tree planting as well as previous maintenance of the garden, extensive work was done to improve the landscape. The plants, which include the Texas […]

Since February 28, the Sugar Land Branch has launched an ongoing English tutoring project for students in mainland China whose schools were closed due to the recent coronavirus outbreak. The tutoring project involved tutoring in one-hour sessions several times per week. The participating members were Albon Wu, Emma Jiang, Serena Li, Sherry Huang and Alice […]

On February 23, members of the Sugar Land Branch performed another concert for seniors at a nursing home. The performers: Hanyang Sha, Yijia Jiang, and Albon Wu presented a series of violin concertos during the hour-long performance. The concert was very well-received by the senior audience.

On February 16, eight members of AYLUS Sugar Land performed at a nursing home. This performance, which extended well over an hour long, featured a variety of instruments and pieces. The performers, Seth Gratz, Justin Chang, Hanyang Sha, Serena Li, Angela Wang, Michael Ma, Yijia Jiang, and Albon Wu, provided an extensive and very well-received […]

On February 9, four members of the Sugar Land Branch volunteered at a nursing home. The members, Serena Li, Hunter Han, Yijia Jiang, and Albon Wu, performed several pieces during the concert, including both traditional and classical compositions alike.

On February 2, members of the Sugar Land branch continued performing at a nursing home. The performers, Justin Chang, Michael Ma, Seth Gratz, and Albon Wu, performed a variety of pieces during their concert, which included a discrete, bonus Chinese New Year segment which featured traditional Chinese pieces.

On January 26, members of the Sugar Land branch began preparing various ways of promoting the recent AYLUS coronavirus fundraiser, one of which was the creation of a digital poster (attached) which was distributed on social media.

On January 19, 2020, members of AYLUS Sugar Land performed a concert at a nursing home. The performers were: Seth Gratz, Serena Li, Emma Jiang, and Albon Wu and received much applause and thanks from the senior audience.

On January 12, five members of the Sugar Land performed a concert at an Alzheimer’s nursing home. The performers, Hunter Han, Michael Ma, Emma Jiang, Serena Li, and Albon Wu performed a total of eight pieces ranging from duets to sonatas. After the performance, several seniors reached out to the performers to give their thanks.

On January 11, members of AYLUS Sugar Land volunteered at Memorial Park in Sugar Land. Members cleaned the park’s Butterfly Garden, where they had planted several trees a few weeks earlier. In addition to clearing dead branches and miscellaneous items from the area, members also trimmed decaying parts from the now-grown trees.

On January 5, the Sugar Land Branch performed a concert at an Alzheimer’s nursing home. The performers, Emma Jiang, Serena Li, and Albon Wu, were greeted warmly and went on to play a total of five pieces for the concert.  

On December 24, members of AYLUS Sugar Land performed a Christmas Eve concert at a nursing home. The performers, who had rehearsed for a total of four hours over the span of the two days prior to the concert, played a variety of traditional Christmas carols and songs. The participating members were: Daniel Trinh (trombone), […]

On December 22 and 23, members of AYLUS Sugar Land rehearsed for the upcoming Christmas Eve concert. Seven musicians: Daniel Trinh (trombone), Grace Trinh (clarinet), Simon Li (trumpet), Ethan Li (clarinet, piano), Emma Jiang (violin), Anna Lin (viola), and Albon Wu (violin), practiced not only four collective ensemble pieces, but also two groups of duets. […]

On December 6, members of AYLUS Sugar Land volunteered for 4 hours at the 17th annual Sugar Land Christmas Tree Lighting event. The event, which included a tribute to the 60th birthday of the city, involved many booths, stands, and attractions. Members distributed markers and candy canes at a booth at which kids wrote and […]