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
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 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
By Isabella He, FCSN Voices Youth Reporter For the 2020 FCSN fundraising gala, youth volunteers were invited to participate in fundraising and for the event for the first time in FCSN history. FCSN school clubs at UC Davis, Irvington High School, James Logan High School, Piedmont Hills, and BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, and Mission San Jose High School helped fundraise for FCSN. We are excited … Continue reading Youth Volunteers Participate in FCSN Annual Fundraising Gala
by Jackie Wong, FCSN Flexible Subject Virtual Tutoring High School Volunteer Hi! I’m Jackie Wong and I have been a tutor for the 1:1 Flexible Subject Virtual Tutoring program for two months. I tutor drawing and since beginning in July, every week’s session has been so rewarding. I found out about this program at FCSN through the club at my school and I immediately took … Continue reading FCSN Volunteer Sharing by Jackie Wong
When FCSN temporarily closed its programs to comply with Sheltering in Place for safety to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was glad to hear that our FCSN volunteers wanted to continue teaching programs to our children. Continue reading FCSN’s Virtual Learning Programs
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