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2012 North Texas Youth Spelling Bee Contest

2012 North Texas Youth Spelling Bee Contest Flyer

CIE/USA-DFW proudly sponsors the 2012 North Texas Youth Spelling Bee Contest. The purpose of the event is to guide students to broaden their vocabularies, improve their spelling, heighten their literacy, and develop crucial language skills. The event will be held on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at Sun Ray Chinese School at 1820 Pearl Street, Carrollton TX 75006. Students of Grade 1 to 8 are encouraged to participate in the event. The check-in starts at 3 pm, and the competition starts at 3:30 pm. The award presentation ceremony is expected to start at 5 pm. Continue reading →

2012 Annual Convention successfully held at Richardson

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The Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE)/USA-DFW Chapter celebrated the CIE/USA Day on August 25 during its 23rd Annual Convention at The Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel. About 600 people attended the convention, including the mayor of city of Richardson, Bob Townsend, mayor of city of Farmers Branch, Bill Glancy, and mayor of city of Garland, Ronald Jones.  Nine cities within the DFW area, including Addison, Frisco, McKinney, Richardson, Lewisville, Plano, Allen, Garland and Irving proclaimed the CIE/USA Day, appreciating the contribution of CIE/USA-DFW to the community. They recognized CIE/USA-DFW continual important role in the economy and society, especially with the growing needs for business savvy skilled workers in the field of engineering and science. Continue reading →

2012 CIE Young Achiever Award (YAA)

Young Achiever Award (YAA) is one of the key programs for CIE/USA-DFW Chapter. YAA is designed to encourage the younger generation of CIE members to achieve high academic performance, to develop leadership skills, to develop strong interest in engineering, and to participate in extracurricular and community volunteer activities to enable them to achieve the greatest possible impact in their communities. These well-rounded skills will help them to become better leaders in this very competitive global market place.
CIE was honored to have professionals from the industries to select our YAA winners. Twenty three entries were received and, out of those, eighteen applicants were selected to be the recipients of the award. The winners all are truly outstanding based on their extraordinary achievements in academic performance, demonstration of exemplary leadership and voluntary involvement in community activities.

Impressive accolades of the 2012 winners include:
– Four recipients have a class ranking of top 3 in their respective schools.
– Multiple recipients with perfect SAT scores various subject tests
– 1st place in Texas Junior Academy of Sciences (TJAS)
– 1st place in MAA Calculus Bowl
– 1st place in digital video production in Future Business Leaders of America Area 6 Conference
– 1st place in Martin Luther King Celebration Art Contest
– Perfect scorer in the American Computer Science League Contest.
– Multiple Gold Medals on Music Theory Tests in Texas Music Teachers Association
– Gold Medal on National Spanish Exam
– 2nd place in International Sustainable World Project Olympiad Science Fair
– 2nd place in Dell International Social Innovation Business Contest
– Texas Visual Arts Scholastic Event State Finalist
– Siemens Competition National Finalist
– VEX Robotics World Championship Semifinalist
– Business Professionals of America Web Site Design Competition National Finalist
– USA Biology Olympiad Silver Medalist
– USA Junior Math Olympiad Honorable Mentionalist (the only from Texas in 2012)
– Researcher at UNT Computer Science/Engineering Department in Computation Epidemiology
– Research Assistant at UT Dallas in Nano Technology

The chairperson of this award is Ms. Sylvia Tong from AT&T. The major sponsors of the CIE 2012 YAA are Texas Instruments, AT&T, Oncor and Diodes. YAA trophies and scholarship will be presented to recipients during the evening banquet of the CIE Annual Convention on Saturday, August 25th at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson, Texas.

CIE Sponsored Program – 2012 CYLC Community Youth Leadership Camp

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2012 Community Youth Leadership Camp (CYLC), hosted by Community Youth Leadership Club and co sponsored by CIE/USA-DFW Chapter and OCA-DFW Chapter was held from July 23rd to July 28th at Texas A&M – Commerce, Texas. Three hundred and thirty students, ages from eight to eighteen, as well as more than forty teachers/speakers/volunteers, attended the week-long residential summer camp dedicated to fostering leadership skills in young people.

The theme of CYLC this year is “Honor,” as part of its ongoing mission to provide direction, leadership, and guidance for aspiring American youth. Classes and workshop activities included identifying strengths and overcoming weaknesses, learning to communicate effectively and to negotiate with people. There also were special sessions on Homeland Security for disaster and emergency recovery, public health and homeland security, appreciating parents, recognizing the family value and strength, leadership characters, binding friendship, balancing leadership, team-building, confidence-building, brainstorming, self-identification, and innovation projects. Many collaborative projects along with marketing strategy segments brought out the creativity and innovation in the students. Students were particularly impressed by the activities of the filming class that culminated with a completed film that was screened at the final performance.

The week ended with an exciting closing ceremony with the 10th anniversary that included an outstanding musical that was put together with only four days of preparation. The exuberant and highly coordinated dance routines featured all the teams dressed in creative costumes designed by the teachers and campers.   The 1000-member audience was totally delighted and showed its appreciation many times through standing ovation.

CIE Sponsored Event – 2012 DCCC DFW Chinese Youth Camp

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CIE/USA-DFW sponsored another successful youth event, 2012 DFW Chinese Youth Camp (CYC), which was held on July 1st through July 7th. Over one hundred-forty campers from age eight to sixteen participated in the summer camp activities and were supported by twenty-six counselors and assistant counselors with ages from fifteen to eighteen. Three teachers, sent by the Overseas Compatriots Affairs Commission of Taiwan ROC held cultural classes to teach Chinese folk dance, Chinese folk activities and Chinese arts and crafts. The arts and crafts teacher taught them how to tie Chinese knots, use Mien to create figurines and much more.  The folk dances showcased during the ending performance included lions, ribbons, fans, flags, nun chucks and Tai Chi.  A personal favorite among all groups was folk activities because students could practice jump rope, traditional Chinese spinning tops and Chinese Yo-Yo.  In addition, CYC had several local teachers teach classes in Chinese painting, etiquette, street dance, Kung-Fu, Chinese song, ballroom dance, and leadership.

The 2012 DFW CYC ended with a successful gala of performance presented by the students. Parents were highly impressed by the gala performance and with the progress made by their children during the camp week. It was clear that campers enjoyed CYC, looked forward to coming back next year, and joined the CYC family.

2012 CIE/Texas Dragons Toastmaster DFW Youth English Speech Contest

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CIE/USA-DFW and Texas Dragons Toastmaster successfully held the DFW Youth English Speech Contest on June 30, 2012 at Collin College Spring Creek Campus. The event was from 8 am to 12 pm. The purpose of the event is to foster self-confidence, promote interest in public speaking, provide an opportunity for youths to enhance their speaking skills by competing, and recognize the best to encourage all. More than ninty students in Grade 1 to 12 participated in the event, and more than 200 parents attended the event. The contest invited 25 professional speech judges to select the winners.

The event chair is Ms. Betty Wan. More than 50 volunteer contributed to the event, including 40 students from the North Texas Youth Honor Society. CIE appreciates their hardwork and effort!

Here is the list of winners of the contest:

First Grade:
First Place: Sehaj Bal
Second Place: Athul Mohanram
Third Place: Advik Ravichandran
Honorable Mentions: Shobhana Ravi, Kavyasri Ramaswamy Eswaramurthy

Second Grade:
First Place: Charles Hou
Second Place: Zachary Tian
Third Place: Jessica Lin
Honorable Mentions: Nethra Krishnan, Rishab Parthasarathy

Third Grade:
First Place: RakshakRavichandran
Second Place: Jennifer Xiong
Third Place: Jennifer Su
Honorable Mentions: Weston Lu, Annabelle Yang

Fourth Grade:
First Place: Sarah Chen
Second Place: Mariana Gil
Third Place: CedricZhou
Honorable Mentions: Sidney Wang, Austin Ma

Fifth Grade:
First Place: Annie Lu
Second Place: Aniket Mathavasi
Third Place: Emily Shen
Honorable Mentions: Koshma Eswar, Jimmy Qian

Sixth Grade:
First Place: Christina Yuan
Second Place: Ameya Chavda
Third Place: Stevie Elena Michel
Honorable Mentions: Kanika Kappalayil, Katherine Xiong

Seventh Grade:
First Place: Peter Huang
Second Place: Lena Khanolkar
Third Place: Jenny Zhu

Eighth Grade:
First Place: Neil Patel
Second Place: Jocelyn Lo
Third Place: Roland Yu

Ninth to Twelfth Grades:
First Place: Cecilia Zhou
Second Place: Titus Deng
Third Place: Jenny Jianing He

2012 MathComp/MathFun – A Huge Success!

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CIE/USA-DFW successfully organized its flagship youth program, the 2012 MathComp/ MathFun, on June 2 (Saturday) at Collin College Spring Creek campus. The event started at 12 pm and ended at 5 pm. It attracted more than 280 students from Grade 1 to 7 registered for the event. Over 800 people participated, visited and volunteered for the event.

MathComp provided the opportunity to demonstrate their math problem solving skills. MathFun was an interactive program allowing parent/children to work together in solving math quizzes and games which stimulate the students’ interest in mathematics. This year there were 16 local non-profit organizations, educational organizations, university/college organizations, sponsors, and Chinese schools participated in the MathFun activity. The activities they brought included math puzzles and games, sudoku, chess, science projects, math education and robotics.

While students were taking the test, there was a Parenting Seminar from Mr. David Cordeiro, a math education expert at Metroplex Math Circle, to show us importance of math in the society. He is also the Offering Manager – Unified Communications at HP Enterprise Services. He also suggested many alternatives to improve the competitiveness of the American students in math at the global level. His presentation in the form of prezi can be found at: http://prezi.com/8ccaw3u6oram/2012-cie-mathcomp-mathfun/

During the award ceremony, Ms. Grace Tyler of Texas Dragon Toastmaster gave a motivational speech to the kids describing the differences between aptitude and attitude from different perspective, and how it can affect the long term career.

MathComp/MathFun organization this year was led by Dr. Chinpei Tang and Dr. Juan Zhao. There were about 130 volunteers involved and participated in the organization of the activities. Within these volunteers, about 10 volunteers were from the Rotaract at Collin College, and about 35 volunteers were from the North Texas Youth Honor Society. The sponsors this year included Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments, Oncor and AT&T. The lunch for the volunteers were sponsored by Cindi’s New York Delicatessen.

Here is the list of winners of MathComp:
Grade 1:
First Place: Ray Chu
Second Place: Amber Li
Third Place: Ian Chen
Honorable Mentions: Weitao Shi, Laura Tan, Harry Wang

Grade 2:
First Place: Eric Wang
Second Place: William Yue
Third Place: Rowechen Zhong
Honorable Mentions: Shreyas Shridharan, Allie Zhang, Ethan Fang

Grade 3:
First Place: Eddie Cao
Second Place: Lillian Ye
Third Place: Sneha Mittal
Honorable Mentions: Srikar Talluri, Michelle Zhu, Kelsey Chen

Grade 4:
First Place: Andrew Zhang
Second Place: Ray Chang
Third Place: Austin Ma
Honorable Mentions: Maxwell Jiang, Michael Ying, Derek Qin

Grade 5:
First Place: Brandon Chen
Second Place: Darren Huang
Third Place: Anthony Jiang
Honorable Mentions: Patrick Lin, Michael Zhan, Ann Zhang

Grade 6:
First Place: Cindy Hao
Second Place: Kevin Feng
Third Place: Katherine Xiong
Honorable Mentions: Tarang Sane, Abhilash Potluri, Jason Luo

Grade 7:
First Place: Albert Yue
Second Place: Max Bu
Third Place: Alexandru Spiride
Honorable Mentions: Peter Huang, Ritvik Annam, Richard Zhu

2012 CIE Young Achiever Award (YAA) – Now Accepting Application

The Young Achiever Award (YAA) is a CIE’s traditional charter of encouraging the young generation (students of 10th and 11th grades) of our CIE members to achieve excellence in academic performance; to participate in extracurricular activities and community services; and to develop leadership skills in early stage of their life. The YAA program is designed to encourage them by recognizing those young students, who have demonstrated so far that they have exceeded in achieving these goals. This particular recognition has proven to be very beneficial to the YAA recipients in their applications to university entrance and also as a good credential record for their career and life. The YAA Committee of CIE/USA DFW is now accepting applications, and its deadline of application is June 29, 2012. For detailed information, please visit http://www.cie-dfw.org/event/2012Events/2012%20YAA/2012_YAA or www.cie-dfw.org. For inquiries, please contact Ms. Sylvia Tong at CIEYAA2012@gmail.com.

CIE Sponsored Program: 2012 DFW Youth English Speech Contest – Now Accepting Registration

The 2012 DFW Youth English Speech Contest is a CIE-sponsored event. It is a unique opportunity for youths to initiate, research, write, and deliver an address to public audience. Volunteers of Texas Dragon Toastmasters Club will organize the contest. Experienced, trained judges have been invited to aid in the critical judging of all levels of competition  Students in grades 1 to 12 are invited to participate. Please visit www.cie-dfw.org for registration information. For inquires, please contact dfwyouthspeechcontest@gmail.com.

CIE Sponsored Program: CYLC 2012 Junior Leadership Seminar – Now Accepting Registration

The CYLC 2012 Junior Leadership Seminar will be held on May 19, 2012 (Saturday) from 12:45pm to 4:15pm at DFW Technology (1200 Executive Dr. East, Richardson, TX 75081). The targeted audiences are 9th through 12th grades students. The speakers of the seminar are Ms. Kelly Stone and Ms. Halen Yu. There will also be a panel discussion at the end of the seminar.

The seminar is free. The deadline for registration is May 16, 2012. No walk-in registration is allowed. Please contact Sandy Lui at sandyluiusa@hotmail.com for registration information. You may also pick up the registration form at Dallas Chinese Community Center (400 N. Greenville, #12, Richardson, TX 75081). Junior Leadership Seminar is limited to the first 70 students on a first-come-first-serve basis.