ACSSS - Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford

2009 Halloween Mixer

Yichuan Ding — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:37:14 +0000

On Oct 30th, at studio 5 & 6 lounge room, ACSSS hosts a mixer to celebrate Halloween. Because most of students are busy to prepare costumes, and there are other costume party on campus, costumes are not a requirement for this mixer. The main theme of the party is to make pumpkin lights. ACSSS has bought necessary materials and tools, including more than ten pumpkins, curving tools, and candles. The students are very enthusiastic about the activity. More than 70 students came to the mixer. At last, every pumpkin became a nice art work. The party ends in colorful lights from the pumpkins and cheers from the participants. This mixer is prepared by ACSSS social activity department.

2009 New Students Welcome Party

Xiaoyu Liu — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:19:06 +0000

What? A traditional welcome party with food services and performances open to all the new students and old students.

When? Sep. 26th, Started from 11am, ended at around 3pm.

Where? As a tradition, we hosted welcome party in the backyard of Bechtel International Center.

Who? Of course, the major participants are our dear new students! Also, we invited Consul Yan from San Francisco. Our VIPs also have Stanford Professors and Parents representatives.Totally around 300 people showed up at the party.

How? This time, almost all of the performers and volunteers, other than board members, are new students. The consul appreciated the MCs very much that she said they were like people from our national broadcast. The performances are amazing too. Not only did they bring laugh and happiness to audiences by ‘Three sentences and a half’ comedy, but also did they give the audiences a graceful music experience by singing and piano-playing. They even kept most of the audiences to last minute, because there was an impressive fashion show at last of the party. Our audiences, apart from saw performances, also took a great time social and net-working around. We had a nice party even the sun is shining brightly at noon. All of these could not have realized without the warm support from our volunteers!

Acknowledgments: Jinjian Zhai, Wei Ren, Yichuan Ding, Xingxin Liu, Xu Tan, Shangping Feng, Yinfeng Qin, Yisha Peng, Yunyun Song, Weiruo Zhang, Wen Zhen, Ze Yuan, Yanjing Yin, Xiao Zhang, Xiaojiang Guo, Junyi Wang, Yezhou Shi, etc.

Willing to participate, too? Email us with your ideas!

If you cannot view the pictures here, please see http://picasaweb.google.com/ACSSSactivity/20090926ACSSSNewStudentWelcomeParty#

2009.09.26 旧金山千名华人游行庆祝中国国庆

Yuankai Ge — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:59:27 +0000

斯坦福大学ACSSS由秘书长谢文俊带队，参加了此次游行。下面是凤凰网的采访视频，内有ACSSS游行片段(0:41)和同学接受采访的镜头(1:02)。

http://v.ifeng.com/news/world/200909/b163dd67-5890-463f-adf6-c0f7b08fd823.shtml

Chinese Valentine (7.7) Singles’ Party

Yichuan Ding — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:41:06 +0000

On Aug 30th, 4 days after Chinese Traditional Valentine’s day, a singles’ party is hosted by ACSSS, at studio 5&6 lodge room.

This party is designed and organized by two ACSSS members, Peng and Ruo. 10 boys and 10 girls are randomly chosen to attend the party. At the beginning, each participant wears fancy masks on face so that the participants can not watch the appearances of each other. After some ice-break talk, there is a matching process. And later, more cooperation-based games are carried out, including a word-guess, a ear-to-ear translate a sentence, and eating water melons. After three matching process, finally three pairs are successfully matched and awarded fancy prizes.

The party is a great success and full of fun because of the organizers’ exceptional entertainment talents and careful preparation. Let us applaud for their ingenious creativity, and their great contributions of improving the life and social quality of Chinese students/scholars community!

The photos can be found below:

Visiting Parents Mixer

Yichuan Ding — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:55:12 +0000

ACSSS has hosted a ice-break mixer to welcome the visiting parents of Chinese students. The mixer is held at 7:30pm on July 29th and lasted for about two hours. Totally about 30 people including parents and students attend this mixer. Free food and drink are provided.

Wei Hai and Tien-wen, as representatives of ACSSS, has extended welcome to the visiting parents. The parents have close communications with each other, and we initialized three tours, stanford hospital, SLAC, and the Stanford art museum. The parents choose their interested tours and ACSSS will offer help organize these tours.

Jiang Bian, Yichuan Ding and their mothers has helped organize this mixer. The photos can be found below:

Communication Skills Workshop on Apr 15/29

Zizhuo Wang — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:08:26 +0000

The ACSSS Advising Program hosted two communication skills workshop on Apr. 15th and Apr. 29th. Dr. Freeland from the Center of Teaching and Learning(CTL) at Stanford was invited to lead the workshops and give guidance on the communication skills of Chinese students. The topic of the first workshop is “work on your voice”, which mainly focuses on Exercising on breath, relaxation, vocal control, and articulation. The topic for the second one is making formal presentations. About 40 students attended each session. In the second workshop, five students volunteered to present their academic researches and accept critiques from Dr. Freeland and other students. The photo can be found below:

There are two coming workshops in the rest of the quarter. One is about interview skills and the other is about debate. We hope that everybody can join us to learn from the experts and have fun in the workshops!

Theme Party: Entertainment Frontier, Apr 24

Yichuan Ding — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:02:06 +0000

ACSSS activity group has brought a fantastic party night at GCC havana room! The party is designed and organized delicately, with a focus on the topic of Entertainment Frontier Culture (娱乐大盘点）, including movie, hot stars, hot musics, and cartoons. Totally 17 students/visiting scholars (about half/half) attended the party. Five teams were formed and underwent exciting and funny competitive games, including:

1. Singing at a break point of a pop song;

2. Guess a particular object upon three given hints;

3. Perform at a break point of a young idol soap.

Prizes are awarded to teams according to their performance.

The aim of this Theme party is to get people involved and enjoy a complete recreation from the daily work. Join our theme party next time if you are interested!

Communication Skill Salon on Apr. 10th

Zizhuo Wang — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:26:09 +0000

On Apr. 10th, the ACSSS Advising Program hosted a communication skill salon at Graduate Community Center. About 60 Chinese students attended this event.The invited speaker, Eunice Buhler, is a sophomore here at Stanford, with extensive social experiences. She is now an active member of Stanford Consulting. Before she came to Stanford, she was the founder of ‘Culture for Youth’, a non-profit organization that teaches young people about cultures and promotes cultural acceptance. She worked with both the World Bank and the U.S. State Department and currently serves on the Youth Service America Advisory Council.

In this salon, Eunice gave a one and half hour talk on how to communicate in both casual and formal cases; how to appreciate American humor and jokes and the etiquette for different social situations . She brought up with many interactive parts in her talk. The audiences were invited to participate in imitating real life situations. They also asked Eunice questions about what they concerned. Many of the students feel that the event was great and they learned something from it.

Chinese Students Played an Active Part in Stanford Splash! 2009 Spring

Jieying Zheng — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:17:00 +0000

On April 4 and 5, Splash! was held on Stanford campus for the second time. This program provides extracurricular enrichment for high school students in the Bay Area by offering academic and non-academic classes designed and taught by volunteer students at Stanford. This quarter, for the first time, 8 students and scholars from mainland China offered 6 classes to 80 high school students with the coordination of ACSSS. Our topics cover Chinese culture, music, education, and traveling around China.

Our classes received ecstatic feedback from high school students and even their parents. “The children are now asking to visit China,” said a father who accompanied his children to Stanford in his email to us, “You did a great job getting them excited!”

“One of the best qualities of Splash is that a tremendous variety of classes can do well there,” quoted Michael Shaw, president of Stanford Educational Studies Program, who initiated and leads Splash! at Stanford, “We’re excited to have you involved with Splash this year!”

Our volunteer teachers are as excited. A lot of them expressed the intention to teach again in the future. “I have already started thinking about topics of more interest to high school students.” says one of our volunteer teachers. Indeed, since Splash! is going to return at the beginning of autumn quarter, stay tuned and prepare your own topic to enrich the event!

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stanford-Splash/68520929139?ref=nf#/pages/Stanford-Splash/68520929139?ref=nf

Spring Quarter Mixer

Yichuan Ding — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:18:12 +0000

On Mar 27th, ACSSS activity group hosts a mixer in Studio 5 lodge room. More than 30 people attend the mixer, and the content of the mixer is chatting, card and board games. The mixer starts at 7pm and some people play the board game until 5am next morning! The goal of the mixer is mainly to bring more social and fun to students/scholars staying here through the spring quarter.