PVSA Winner: Katelyn Yu
Katelyn Yu is a Winner of the Gold PVSA award! She goes to Westlake High School and is in 10th grade. Her hobbies include playing piano, fashion, and robotics. Katelyn is…
Climate Change is Real
I can’t believe it’s starting to get hot again, especially since it was freezing just a few days ago.
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One Lesson the Winter Storm Taught Me
Those first snowflakes didn’t feel like anything impossible. Just a bit of an adjustment to a dusty photograph, like teeth whitening. During the night, the snow muffled my nightmares, sang with my hopes of more snow, and danced to the ground. Overnight though, everything changed. Waking up that day, I remember feeling weird. Too much silence. Usually, there might be a sound of a car driving by, yet today was different. Remembering the soft snowflakes drifting down last evening, I excitedly climbed out of my bed wishing for as much snow as possible, I LOVED snow. Little did I know that this would negatively impact millions of people and teach us a very important lesson.
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ACAN Youth Announced Winners of the Logo Competition
Announcing the winners of the 2021 ACAN Youth Logo Competition
Hope…but When?
In February, we packed and delivered a total of 200 bags to the homeless communities across the city. Some of us wrote cards. Some of us came to pack. Some of us baked cookies. And some of us went to deliver. These bags are making a huge impact, not only the essential items such as socks and snacks, but also the encouraging words on the cards, the Chinese red envelopes, and most importantly, the heart and kindness we put into each and every one of these bags.
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A Rainbow Comes With Every Storm
The weekend of the winter storm was the weekend that my sister would head off to college. At 4 AM last Saturday, she flew to Massachusetts. Little did we know that if she left even a day later, her flight would be postponed.
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Prepare Well
“By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.” Always. Texas didn’t do really well, but I think my family did well.
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ACAN Meal Delivery Project: Delivering Food and United Our Community
The COVID pandemic has certainly shaken up our community, causing small businesses to shut down and many restaurants to permanently close their doors to the public. This has caused many…
PVSA Winner: Ryan Liu
Bruce Lee once said,
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work, and into your life. There are no limits.”
Ryan Liu is a dedicated volunteer who embraces this concept in his goals and community service. Ryan is a determined sophomore student at Cedar Park High School in Austin, Texas as well as a member of the Austin Chinese-American Network. Over the past year, Ryan not only served his community in his local city, but he also reached beyond and worked across the world to serve communities beyond his limits.
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