Community 2020
❀ 2020 Annual Report
❀ TMM Seminar
12/12/2020: CALex hosted a TMM introduction seminar by inviting five TMMs to share their experiences and thoughts. A report in Chinese is here.
❀ LexYouth Learning Program – Inspire, Lead and Grow!
11/29/2020: LexYouth Learning Program was officially launched after a long planning and preparation.
❀ Support Black History Project of Lexington
11/02/2020: LexTalk program, precursor of LexYouth, donated $2,500 to the Black History Project of Lexington. Enriching History and Ourselves
❀ Youth Seminar on Learning and Beyond
09/20/2020: Under the pandemic, many children study remotely at home. The dramatic learning change brings a lot of challenges to the children. To help them better cope with the unprecedented obstacles, CALex invites four panelist students to share how they strive to navigate their lives and learning journey. They are students, student teachers or teaching assistants from DiYi Boston, where they take reading/writing courses and develop coursework to teach lower level students. They are masters of reading, writing, math or sports. Outside of student work, they are passionate leaders, enthusiastic for the public good, and actively participate in community services. Here are the slides and audio recording.
❀ My Chemistry Olympiad Journey
08/22/2020: In July 2020, the US team won 4 gold medals in the International Olympic Chemistry Competition. Lexington High School’s Alex Li ranked first among 231 outstanding players from all over the world. Alex has been participating in the science and math teams of LHS since the 9th grade, and has been the captain of these two teams since the 11th grade. CALex sincerely invites Alex to share learning and leadership experience with the community. Here are the slides and video recording.
❀ Introduction to New AoPS Academy Lexington Campus
08/16/2020: CALex is glad to help Ms. Fiona Young, the
Campus Director of AoPS (Art of Problem Solving) Lexington, organize a great talk to introduce AoPS and her educational experiences to the community. Here are the slides and video recording. The AoPS introduction started at 12th minutes and Ms. Young’s educational experiences from her young age to undergraduate at Harvard University started at 42nd minutes.
❀ CALex continues to support Lexington community:
We can be reached at contact@calexma.org for help. Visit Lexington website LexHelp for consolidated information of resources and help.
06/29/2020: Thanks to Select Board, Town Manager and all leaders for your great effort during the pandemic crisis! We are so proud that we have been able to help. Also thanks to our volunteers and community members and friends for your support and generous donations!
06/29/2020: Support the Food Pantry Month: with $2000 match from CALex, Lexington Food Pantry received over $6000 donations in total in June. CALex also donated $1000 in April. Thanks to our community for your generosity!
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❀ Lexington for Racial Justice:
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Our deepest condolences to George Floyd’s family. The truth must come out and justice be served.
❀ CALex team and community members were actively working in helping fight COVID-19, and support Lexington community and frontline healthcare workers:
05/26/2020: CALex update 3 on fighting COVID-19 and supporting Lexington.
05/23/2020: CALex thanks all Lexington community members and friends for their generous monetary and PPE donations in the past four months!
05/16/2020: We are one community. In the past week, CALex volunteers worked tirelessly and donated 1100 Surgical N95, 200 KN95, 1100 Surgical Masks including 500 ASTM3, 80 Protective Suits, 70 Goggles and 3400 Gloves to 7 hospitals, health centers and nursing homes.
05/01/2020: CALex made the 46th PPE donation to CHA Broadway Health Center when the doctors and nurses only have less than 10 masks left.
04/30/2020: Overcoming multiple challenges including supply shortage, holidays, tight flight schedule, regulation changes and many other factors, two shipments of total 10,000 surgical N95s finally arrived on 4/21 and 4/27, respectively, from overseas! The critically needed masks were shared among members of the N95 Alliance, and many of them were already donated to frontline healthcare workers. Big thanks to our volunteers, supporters and alliance members (CALex, Chinese American Association of Sharon, Chinese American Network of Winchester, Chinese American Association of Westborough, Chinese American Community of Shrewsbury, and Central Mass Running Group).
04/27/2020: A ThankYou picture was received from Lahey Hospital in Burlington.
04/05/2020: CALex update 2 on fighting COVID-19 and supporting Lexington.
03/25/2020: CALex update 1 on fighting COVID-19 and supporting Lexington.
03/25/2020: Report on the 2nd and 3rd PPE donations to Lexington Pediatrics and Beth Israel Lahey Health ER in Burlington.
03/23/2020: CALex made the 1st PPE donation to Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
❀ On Thursday, March 26, 2020, CALex attended the meeting hosted by Lexington Human Services Department to connect on community resources and needs during the COVID-19 situation.
❀ On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, and Friday, March 20, 2020, CALex attended both meetings hosted by Lexington Community Coalition to share and discuss the ways to help and support our community during the COVID-19 situation.
❀ The campaign to Support Wuhan (in Chinese) started on January 24, 2020 and completed on February 28, 2020.
❀ The 2020 Chinese New Year party on February 8 was cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.
❀ On Saturday, February 1, 2020, CALex (Chinese Americans of Lexington) hosted Candidate Forum for Lexington Town Election.
