Bellarmine Percussion teachers Jacob, Charles, Anthony, Adam, and Shoaib have been bringing people together by teaching percussion since 2018. Since the pandemic, they have had to move their lessons online, but they continue to adapt and devote themselves to teaching students with their passion. Classes are currently open for registration. Continue reading Feeling the Beat
Youth Volunteers Luna and Jessica started teaching FCSN’s cooking class since 2020. Students not only learn how to follow recipes, they also learn the cultural background and fun facts about the foods. This semester, they will learn how to make pancakes, sweet & sour chicken, chicken parmesan spaghetti, sushi, and much more. Continue reading Cooking with Friends
Teaching a class of special needs students can be nerve-racking, and even more so doing it over Zoom. Andria Luo shares her experience co-teaching a virtual dance class, and tips on how to make a virtual class fun and engaging for everyone in class. Continue reading My Experience Teaching Dance at FCSN
Youth volunteer Connor Chen used technology to keep in touch with close friends and celebrate FCSN members’ birthdays. Read about how they party online and what it takes to prepare for these events. Continue reading FCSN Online Birthday Partying!
A Harker Academy high school senior who came to FCSN to teach computer skills one-on-one to special needs clients found himself this fall with a classroom full of FCSN staff members, eager to learn graphic design. Eighteen FCSN staff members met weekly over Zoom for 10 weeks in a Train-the-Trainer class developed by Eric Zhu with the goal of improving presentations and direct instruction to clients. Continue reading Youth Volunteer Trains FCSN Staff In Graphic Design
Since 2018, Michelle Zhao has been leading FCSN Dance Camps, bringing dance and music to camper’s winter break and lifting everyone’s holiday spirits. Read about this year’s virtual dance camp, “A Night at the Nutcracker.” Continue reading Dancing with the (FCSN) Stars
Previously known as the Flexible Subject Tutoring Program, this year round 1-on-1 tutoring program enables youth volunteers to connect with special needs students virtually and support them in a variety of academic and non-academic topics, ranging from STEM, drawing, board games, music, and sports. Continue reading SNTutoring: From 13 to 160+ 1:1 Virtual Tutoring Matches
by Jim Chiao, co-founder of FCSN Let’s take a moment to remember our friend Yumin, who was a part of FCSN’s first group of youth volunteers. He passed away on Oct. 26 at the age of 38 after fighting cancer for the past 2 years. Yumin’s family was one of FCSN’s founding families in 1996, and Yumin joined as a youth volunteer in 1997 when … Continue reading Remembering Yumin
By Anna Kuang, FCSN Teen Volunteer You’ve heard from your friend how amazing FCSN is. You’ve read on this blog the many joys that volunteering brings. You feel encouraged by the pictures of smiling high schoolers and the beaming kids next to them. You’ve finished the Volunteer orientation and chosen the program you want to volunteer for. It’s 10am and your first ever lesson over … Continue reading Six and a Half Tips to Make Virtual Volunteering AWESOME!
By Sara Kuang, FCSN Teen Volunteer The mere mention of the acronym opens a very special place in my mind where warm snapshots of my childhood reside. Vignettes from the years I spent as a joyful, eager member of their Drama and Music Camps, and Saturday Gatherings cascade over relatively recent memories of being a volunteer at those same programs. I’ve been a member of … Continue reading My Family, My Passion, My Love
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