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Organizer: Chloe Wong
Planners: Katherine Ge, Ruby Gao, David Lai, Felix Yang, Joyce Tan, Sara Lu
PB Online Spring Festival Gala 2024
The inaugural PB Online Spring Festival Gala was a great success on February 16, 2024! The distinctive content of the Gala serves as a communication bridge between tutors in the US and students in China, facilitating meaningful connections and interactions!
More from the 2024 Spring Gala
2023 - we volunteer, we serve
PB Tutoring
Recruiting year round
Tutors can sign up to teach English to students in China for volunteer hours
For more information visit the ESL Tutoring page
Team building
Sept 3, 2023
Annual team building and PVSA award ceremony at Solana Ranch Park
Teaching Math at Learning Tree
Summer 2023
During the summer of 2023, Terry helped teach math classes at Learning Tree.
Book Club Summer Camp
June 19-July 28, 2023
TBD
Book Club Spring Camp
April 3-7, 2023
TBD
2022 - we volunteer, we serve
Artsale Fundraising
Nov 27, 2022
Art Sale Fundraising at Mira Mesa Artisan Market to help cover the domestic book shipping cost to build a library in Africa.
Youth Flea Market Fundraising
Nov 13, 2022
Organize fund raising event "youth flea market". All fund goes to support local media "Youth of We Chinese in America magazine"
CCA Campus Book Drive
Nov 6, 2022
As part of the larger organization’s effort to donate books to those in need, the CCA put out announcements to garner interest in donations and set a date when the donation process would occur.
African Library Book Drive
Oct 15 - Nov 15, 2022
In a collaborative effort between Project Butterfly, Libraries with Love, and AYLUS San Diego Branch, we successfully collected sufficient books to establish three libraries in Uganda, East Africa.
Campus recruiting at club fair day
Sept 1, 2022
We expanded our volunteer base at the CCA campus by establishing a CCA chapter
Featured on "We Chinese Magazine"
Aug 1- Oct 1, 2022
The 2022 special edition of 'Youth of We Chinese in America' magazine featured Project Butterfly's club and volunteer team on its cover page.
Teambuilding at Mission bay
Sept 5, 2022
Annual team-building picnic at Mission Bay, combined with the PVSA award ceremony
Tutor Meeting at Ocean Air community park
May 8, 2022
Tutor in person meeting at Ocean Air community park to share teaching experience and tips.
2021 - we volunteer, we serve
African Library Book Drive (Uganda)
Nov 1 - Nov 23, 2021
Collected enough books to ship one library to Uganda, and one library to Ghana.
BalBoa Park Fundraising Performance
June 26, 2021
HongWu KongFu Academy and Project Butterfly organized fundraising performance at Balboa park. Great collaboration.
Yellow Whistle Project
May 30, 2021
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Build school partnership
April 3, 2021
Demonstration classes to build an English tutoring partnership with ShaanXi HeYang school.
Health Center Book Donation
Mar 13, 2021
After a successful book drive of 1,000+ books, Project Butterfly members delivered them to the San Diego Family Circle Adult Day Health Center.
2020 - covid-19 relief effort
Book and Toy Drive
Aug 2, 2020 - Aug 8, 2020
We organized a book and toy drive, and collected 1022 books, 93 toys, and 2 bikes. All collection are donated to the underprivileged children living in Linda Vista area, through the Bayside community center.
Mask Donation for Small Businesses
May 8, 2020
We donated masks and face shield to small businesses around the Linda Vista area. These included K Sandwiches, Linda Vista Dentistry, California Burritos, and many more!
Mask Donation for Bayside Community Center
May 5, 2020
We donated surgical masks to Bayside Community Center to distribute to local community members.
Blanket and Shoe Donation
April 25, 2020
We organized blanket drive, and also set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds to purchase 51 blankets and 25 pairs of sneakers. Blankets and shoes are donated to the Alpha Project Bridge to help homeless.
Mask Donation to Police
April 20, 2020
We donated 1,000 masks to San Diego Police Department Northwestern Division and San Diego County Sheriff's Department at Poway.
Mask Donation to Hospital
April 13, 2020
We donated 1,000 masks and bottles of hand sanitizer to Alvarado Hospital Medical Center.
Preliminary exploration before establishing "Project Butterfly club"
Monthly Senior Center Performance
June 2019 - Jan 2020
In June 2019, Katherine took the initiative to organize and host a youth talent performance at La Jolla Atria Senior Living. Themed around the dragon boat festival, the event showcased piano, violin, pipa, singing, dance, model show, and martial arts.
Encouraged by the enthusiastic response, Katherine teamed up with Ruby to turn the talent show a monthly performance. By the end of 2019, the duo decided to establish a student club "Project Butterfly" in reference to the butterfly effect.
Monthly in person performance was terminated early 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Online English Tutoring
Sept 2018 - Dec 2020
Katherine Ge taught spoken English class to her 26 Chinese students at YuCai middle school.
Since 2018, she has volunteered to teach spoken English to students in Sichuan, China, through a program organized by the WuWei Harmony Foundation. Additionally, she actively recruited five student volunteers from Atria Senior Living's monthly performances to participate in the tutoring program.
After the tutoring program concluded at the end of 2020, Katherine was inspired to establish a new tutoring program within the Project Butterfly club. The 5 experienced student tutors became the earliest tutor team of project butterfly ESL tutoring program.