ASG Students Celebrate Halloween With Scary Costumes
October 28th, 2016 | Featured
Halloween may be largely associated with America, but that doesn’t mean other nations do not celebrate this frightful holiday. American Scholar Group (ASG) hosted the annual Halloween Party for staff and students on October 28th, 2016. The Banquet Hall, while usually used for a full range of formal occasions, was decked out in spooky decorations. Students came dressed in various costumes, from evil clowns and sumo wrestlers, to zombies, movie characters and more!
As always, the event included a costume contest. This year’s contest was conducted via a fashion show. Students took turns to parade their costumes before a panel of judges comprised of ASG staff and fellow students. The participants were judged according to effort, creativity, and presentation.
Jeovana Zhang won 1st place, Ezekiel Lim came in 2nd, and Celina Zhao took 3rd Place. Each winner took home cash prizes of $50, $30 and $20 respectively.
A number of student clubs also hosted exhibits and events at the costume party.
MUSIC CLUB
ASG Music club members performed a number of musical hits for all in attendance
VISION CLUB
As part of their monthly visual arts presentation, the ASG Vision Club set up a gallery of photos, drawings and videos dedicated to the spirit of Halloween. Each art piece and picture was carefully selected to match the theme and tell a spooky story.
Below is the slide show that the students put together for the event
FASHION & COSMETICS SOCIETY
ASG Fashion & Cosmetics Society set up a Halloween Makeup booth to help their fellow students spice up their costumes.
To see more of the spooky fun and games check out our event gallery!
Students Take part in Annual Halloween Parade
October 29th, 2016 | Community News
20 ASG students and staff took part in Greenville’s annual Halloween parade on Saturday, October 29th. Students walked alongside other parade participants from numerous organizations and businesses, tossing out candy to spectators and learning a little more about the significance of such seasonal holidays in American culture.
Pictures from event below
Restaurant and Food Critic Consultant Joins Team ASG
October 26th, 2016 | ASG News
We are pleased to announce the addition of Ms. Patricia Chia of Japan to our team! Patricia is a professional food critic and consultant with more than 25 years in the food and beverage industry. Prior to join ASG, she consulted for numerous restaurant groups in Japan to launch restaurants, including several Michelin star level outfits.
Patricia will be bringing her vast experience and knowledge to the food services division at ASG as part of our ongoing commitment to providing our students delicious and meals every day.
Patricia has already began teaching some residence life and food services staff new recipes and more. See some pictures of her latest group cooking session!
ASG Students for Charity Hosts Shoe Drive & Announces 4 New Service Locations
October 24th, 2016 | Student Clubs
The Students for Charity Club would also like to announce that they are teaming up with the Soles 4 Souls nonprofit organization to collect lightly used shoes for the needy. The campaign began October 24th and will run until November 21st.
Collection boxes have been placed at ASG HQ and the following schools:
– Kennedy Catholic High School
– Greenville High School
– Cardinal Mooney High School
We encourage anybody with extra and gently used pairs of shoes to donate them to this cause. Our goal is to collect 200 pairs of shoes by November 21st! All shoes will be delivered to Soles 4 Souls and eventually distributed to the needy across the United States and overseas.
For more information, please see Maria Morin or any Students for Charity member!
The ASG Students for Charity Club is pleased to announce new charity and service opportunities through 4 new service sites. Each site will be led by student service leaders from the club. Please see below for information about each service site and information for volunteering. If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up on the bulletin board or see Ms. Maria Morin!
St. Paul’s Nursing Home
Service Leaders: Julie Oh and Alice Cho
Volunteer Info:
4 Volunteers needed at following times every week
Bingo Activity
Saturday – 1:30-3:45PM
Tuesday – 6:15-8:15PM
Church Service
Wednesday – 5:45-6:30PM
Stray Haven Animal Shelter
Service Leaders: Rafal Gerlik, Kenneth Choe, and Adam Hu
Volunteer Info:
9am – 2pm every Saturday
Walking dogs, cleaning cages, sweeping
The Good Shepherd Center
Service Leaders: Anna He, Adam Hu, Kobe Wang
Volunteer Info:
Volunteer opportunities every Saturday and days off from school
Fresh Grounds Coffee House
Service Leader: Lavender Tian
Volunteer Info:
To Be Determined. Please see Lavender or Maria Morin if you are interested in volunteering
GHS Students Compete in Business Week Competition
October 21st, 2016 | Student Spotlight
Greenville High School students participated in their annual Business Week simulation from October 17th – 21st.
Throughout the week, GHS students learned about the basics of entrepreneurship including launching their own companies, designing a product and marketing it to potential ‘customers’.
This year, six teams participated in the week-long event, each with a different product of their own. Instead of going to regular classes, team members spent the week brainstorming product development and marketing together, all while making sure to keep all their plans hidden from competing teams before the big reveal.
ASG students Maria Matuszewska, Jancie Ye, Leo Li, Yvette Shao, Tony Tang, Leo Lee, Peter Zhang, Alex Zhu and Ander Wang competed on various teams.
Leo Li and Yvette Shao of Team HyperPixel took home top honors, winning the overall competition and 3 awards for Top Company, Advertising & Marketing Competition, Stock Holders Presentation.
Leo Lee Sukmin’s company, Capture Inc won the trade show category for their product, “Captum”, a small versatile camera-enhancing device named after the Latin word for “Capture.” The camera, which was designed to be scratchproof and waterproof, wasn’t limited to just smartphones. It could be added to any versatile object, such as a wall or a helmet.
“I think we won [the marketing award] because we had a good prototype and we treated our customers very nicely,” Sukmin said. “I learned a lot about finance, managing money, marketing, research and development. It was an awesome week and I made a whole bunch of new friends.”
Maria Matuszewska of Poland worked with her teammates to create a personal organizer in the form of a high-tech wallet. It sported a fingerprint sensor, modeled after the technology brought out and updated by Apple and Samsung on their newest generation of phones, and an application on smartphones in case it gets lost. “I was surprised we didn’t win, “Matuszewska said. “It was a lot of fun to just work with people, because everyone had a job in the group. It was more important to work as a group.”
Check out the video below for highlights from the week!
ASGI Organizes Public Security Conference for 20 Vietnamese VIP Officials
September 30th, 2016 | ASG News
The American Scholar Global Institute (ASGI) hosted 20 VIP delegates from the Vietnamese police forces for a public security conference conducted by Pittsburgh Technical College (PTC) and Waynesburgh University (WU) from September 27th – 30th 2016.
The 4-day conference, led by instructors and career professionals from several U.S. law enforcement agencies, featured seminars and field visits that covered topics in criminal justice, crisis management, policing protocols, and terrorist prevention, among others.
The Delegates also had the opportunity to have hands-on experiences observing law enforcement vehicles and equipment, to touring federal law enforcement sites like Pittsburgh’s 911 dispatch center.
Participants from both nations enjoyed learning from each other and sharing about their respective region’s challenges and methods in crime prevention.
After the conference, ASGI took the delegates on a tour of New York City and Washington D.C. allowing them to visit numerous locations such as the White House and the Statue of Liberty.
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