UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Past Events
6/11/2024 LIYD donated scholarships to the local Ward Melville High School
12/21/2023 LIYD donated $1,438.00 to the Stony Brook Children’s Hospital
In the year of 2023, several clubs in LIYD held different fundraising events: art club, community outreach and fundraising club, cooking and baking club, & music and performing arts club. They raised $1,438.00 in total and decided to donate to Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. Ms. Eileen Colletti, Sr. Director of Development and Mr. Bryan Sekunda, Director of Development, from the Stony Brook Children’s Hospital held donation ceremony and applauded what our LIYD kids had done to our local communities. Leaders and representatives from these clubs joined this event along with LIYD president, Dr. Yanping Yu: Isabelle Chen, Julia Hou, Jacqueline Janny, Bella Li, Charles Liu, Mia Liu, Elaine Ma, Luna Wang, Sarah Wu, Aimee Yang, Angelina Zhang, Chelsie Zhao, Sandy Zhao as shown in the picture below. Credits should also go to Oliver Wu.
On January 28, 2024, Ashley donated $400 to the Stony Brook Children’s Hospital from her handmade bracelet sale. In the past years, our art club donated animal plushies and vegetable gardening club donated $200 from its sale to the Stony Brook Children’s Hospital.
9/16/2023 Dragon Boat Festival
8/6/2023 Dragon Boat Festival Practice #2
7/23/2023 Dragon Boat Festival Practice #1
7/22/2023 The 2nd Anniversary Celebration and Fundraising Party of LIYD held at the Waterview in Port Jefferson.
The 2nd Anniversary Party was attended by around 140 people, including the Town of Brookhaven District One Councilman Jonathan Kornreich. The party began with the National Anthem, sung by Angelina and accompanied by David Wu. Dr. Yanping Yu, President of LIYD, delivered opening remarks, including an acknowledgment of the seniors who contributed to this organization and would now be moving on to college. Ms. Lin Guan presented PVSA awards to Angelina Zhang, Kevin Dong, and Julia Hou (gold awards), and Alexander Huang and Jason Lu (bronze awards). Brief speeches were given by club leaders about the upcoming clubs in the 2023-24 school year, and Letters of Honor were granted to new co-leaders of clubs. Ms. Lin Guan delivered closing remarks.
7/2, 7/28/2023 LIYD hosts two ‘Meet the Graduates of 2023’ panel discussions in collaboration with American Asian Association of Greater Stony Brook (AAAGSB).
6/8/2023 LIYD sponsors scholarships to Ward Melville High School Seniors.
Congratulations to these scholarship awardees, class of 2023!!
Community Service Scholarship: Mia Cottone, Kevin Hanson, Michaela Dowd
Varsity Tennis Scholarship: Eri Nagata, Catherine Park, Ethan Timm
Science Olympiad Club Scholarship: Owen Dong, Hannah Lin, Kate Sun
Art and Music Scholarship: Theresa Jiao, Evan Meinsen, Nicole Xiao, Franshesca Jordan-Aviles, Kiriaki Manganas, Emily Aron
Academic Excellence Scholarship: Jacklyn DeBlasi, James Tucker, Molly Tredor
6/7/2023 Congratulations to these LIYD members on getting PVSA from Three Village Central School District!
These kids volunteered their time with events held by LIYD between April 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023. Thank you for sharing your talents and time with our local communities which make our communities better places to live!!
Bronze Award: Grace Guo, Emily Kral, Bella Li, Katherine Liang, Charles Liu, Sandy Zhao, Lily Fung
Silver Award: Ted Li, Eric Liu, Benjamin Zhang
Gold Award: Yujay An, Amy Chen, Isabelle Chen, Katie Duong, Sabrina Fung, Daniel Liang, Anna Potekhin, Benjamin Wu, Oliver Wu, Sarah Wu, Aimee Yang, Judy Zhao
9/17/2022 LIYD Racers compete in the 8th Annual Port Jefferson Dragon Boat Race Festival 2022.
In the 250-meter race, the personal record was 1 minute 5.94 seconds, which ranked us sixth out of 18 non-club teams. This was the first time that a team of all juniors raced in this event. Our two captains, Luke Hou and David Wu, were interviewed by The Village Times Herald. Art club designed our team shirts, hats and flag.
7/24/2022 The 1st Anniversary Celebration and Fundraising Party of LIYD is held in New Village Recreation Center, Centereach, NY.
About 150 people attend this event, including Mr. Steven C. Englebright, the Assembly member for the 4th District of the New York Assembly, Mrs. Kara Hahn, Suffolk County legislator, and Mr. Johnathan Kornreich, Brookhaven Town Councilman. This event started with national anthem sung by Angelina Zhang and accompanied by David Wu. Dr. Yanping Yu, President of LIYD delivered opening remarks. Mr. Steven C. Englebright, Mrs. Kara Hahn and Mr. Johnathan Kornreich made speeches in our event and handed certificates to recognize our LIYD youth leaders’ contributions and services to our community. All club leaders made short presentations about their achievements and future plans. During the party, Dr. Yu also presented PVSA certificates to Luke Hou, Jason Liu, Eric Wang (all Bronze Awards) and David Wu (Gold Award). Music club organized a mini-concert and Baking and Cooking club made desserts for this party. Ava Della Pietra sang a song that she wrote by herself. This whole event was hosted by Angelina Zhang and Julia Hou. There was also a Traditional Chinese Watercolor Painting Fundraising event during LIYD Anniversary Party. For a list of paintings, click here. The party ended up with a line dance session.
Speech by Mr. Johnathan Kornreich, Brookhaven Town Councilman
Speech by Mrs. Kara Hahn, Suffolk County Legislator
Speech by Mr. Steven C. Englebright, the Assembly member fo the 4th District of the New York Assembly
7/10, 7/30/2022 LIYD hosts two College Prep Seminars in collaboration with the Asian American Association of Greater Stony Brook (AAAGSB)
6/8/2022 LIYD sponsors scholarships to Ward Melville High School Seniors.
Congratulations to these scholarship recipients, class of 2022!!
Community Service Scholarship: Abigail McVicker, Kenzie Jarnagin, Phoebe Brenner
Varsity Tennis Team Scholarship: Rachel Zhang, John Park, Matthew Verby
Science Olympiad Club Scholarship: Neal Carpino, Ivan Ge, David Liang
Art and Music Scholarship: Donald Anderson, Gabriella Markarian, Michael Gualtieri, Lily Kaminski, Ava Santamaria
LIYD Scholarship: Alayna Harrigan
6/6/2022 Congratulations to these LIYD members on getting PVSA from Three Village Central School District!
These kids volunteered their time with events held by LIYD before April 1st, 2022. Thank you for sharing your talents and time with our local communities which make our communities better places to live!!
Bronze Award: Owen Dong, Alexander Huang, Charles Liu, Eric Liu, Victoria Ye
Silver Award: Grace Guo, Bella Li, Lijia Lin, Julie Yang
Gold Award: Amy Chen, Alexandra Duan, Kevin Dong, Julia Hou, Emma Li, Katherine Liang, Valentina Trajkovic, Melody Wang, Benjamin Wu, Oliver Wu, Sarah Wu, Zoe Xiao, Aimee Yang, Vivian Ye, Angelina M. Zhang, Michael Zhang, Terry Zhang