MLCCC 2016-12-08 news letter
Dear Parents,
Hope everyone is staying warm in the cold weather. Please note that our Weekend School will break for the holidays on Sunday Dec. 25 and Sunday Jan. 1. So there are two more classes (including this Sunday) for the rest of 2016. Classes resume in 2017 on Jan. 8. Then a few weeks after that is our Chinese New Year Gala on Jan. 29!
Synopsis:
- Education seminar “怎样抢到名牌大学抛出的绣球?” (“How to Grab Hydrangea Thrown from the Prestigious Colleges?” by Zhen Yang, a Scientist in the DE Area and a Calligraphy Teacher in ChunHui Chinese School, This Sunday @1pm in Room 166
- PTO Sponsored 虹城 (King’s Village) Food on Sale This Sunday
- Giant Gift Card on Sale
- Children’s Chorus Starts This Sunday 12:30pm-1pm in Room 166
- Parents Basketball Shooting Game on 12/18 - Registration Continues
- Parent-on-Duty This Week
Details:
- Education seminar “怎样抢到名牌大学抛出的绣球?” (“How to Grab Hydrangea Thrown from the Prestigious Colleges?” by Zhen Yang, a Scientist in the DE Area and a Calligraphy Teacher in ChunHui Chinese School, This Sunday @1pm in Room 166
其子2014年毕业于特拉华州一所普通高中Newark High School，GPA在校排名40名。2014年录取到Carnegie Mellon University。讲座主要从个人经历和所收集的数据总结，探讨一下怎么样把一个各方面比较一般的小孩，尽量推到比较好的大学。
My son graduated an ordinary high school in Delaware - Newark High School (Out of national rank list, average SAT score: 1485 in 2014), and GPA rank was ~40. He entered Carnegie Mellon University.
This seminar is exploring the better pathway to enter prestigious universities for an ordinary high school student according to personal experience and the collected data. The seminar is divided into:
A. What kind of student is favorited by prestigious colleges?
B. How to Grab Hydrangea Thrown from the Prestigious Colleges?
1. What kinds of preparations the student needs to do;
2. How and when to do these preparations and how parents can help;
3. How to pick the colleges that fit you and with high acceptance opportunity;
4. The items that we need to pay attention to.
C. The experience in Financial Aid
1. How to calculate the college tuition;
2. The possible pathway for reducing the tuition.
D. College is a new starting point for Life
Seminar contents and speaker bio are attached.
Zhen Timothy Yang:
Senior Research Scientist in Wilmington PharmaTech Inc.,
and Teacher for Chinese Calligraphy in Chunhui Chinese School
* Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, Nanjing University, P.R. China;
* M. S., Environmental Chemistry, Nanjing University, P.R. China;
* B.S., Physical Chemistry, Nanjing University, P.R. China
1994-1998 Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, Associate Professor and Section Head
1999 The First Place in Nationwide for published papers on SCI source journals in environmental science and engineering major
1999 Participate the scientific cruise crossing Atlantic ocean and Indian ocean
Hobby:
Reading and writing. Have published papers on “People’s Daily (Oversea edition)”, “Chinese Scholars”, “Xinmin Evening News”, “Yangcheng Evening News” and “Yangtze Evening News”
- PTO Sponsored 虹城 (King’s Village) Food on Sale This Sunday
Popular 虹城 (King’s Village) food comes back with demand. Get your holiday food in stock before they are all sold out!
- Giant Gift Card on Sale
If you are planning some holiday gifts to teachers, mailman, bus drivers, etc, please consider buying Giant gift cards from our PTO. For every $20 you buy, Giant will donate $1 to PTO while you don’t lose one penny for the purchase. So act on this win-win program to support our PTO! Thank you for your consideration in advance!
- Children’s Chorus Starts This Sunday 12:30pm-1pm in Room 166
Our Children’s Chorus will start rehearsing this Sunday during 12:30pm-1pm in Room 166. The songs will be in Chinese. If anyone is interested and has not told us already, please reply to this email or let us know at the Admin Desk. Thank you to our Chorus teacher Ms. Wen Li.
- Parents Basketball Shooting Game on 12/18 - Registration Continues
ATTENTION PARENTS!
Come join this fun activity with other parents! Shoot ten balls into a hoop to get school dollars for your kids! The top three scorers will be rewarded 20, 10, and 5 school dollars. All other shooters will be given 2 school dollars for participation. Show up at the gym December 18th at 1pm to shoot some hoops! Volunteer judges are needed! Come join in the fun!
Registration starts now by responding to this email, through WeChat or at Admin Desk!
- Parent-on-Duty This Week
Bo Zhang, Yafen Ke (Thank you!)
Looking forward to see you this Sunday!
Best Regards,
Li, Xia - Principal
Julia Chou - Director of Operations and Communications
Sherry Wang - PTO President
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