Hi! My name is Vicky Shan and I am a rising senior at Winston Churchill high school. Through CAPA, I was able to give back to my community, for example, during quarantine, as a part of CAPA JRC, I was able to translate government issued relief packages to local Chinese owned restaurants to get them through hard times.
Additionally during quarantine, I was a member of the ITEACH club, helping seniors with daily conversational English and technology use. Recently my growing and giving club has been successfully promoting plastic bag recycling to more people through setting up recycling bins at Churchill high school every Saturday to take recyclable plastic that parents bring.

Richard Montgomery High School Sophie is the founder and president of the Special Education Equal Development Society (SEEDS) where she leads the leadership team for SEEDS’ operations. She is also one of the co-presidents of CAPA-MC’s Growing and Giving Club in the 2022-2023 school year. She also serves as the graphics leader this year for the CAPA-MC Junior Reporter Club.

Richard Montgomery High School Senior

Benefitting my community has always been something I strived to do, whether through small steps or big change:

• Tutor turned Administrative Associate at CAPSA-MC, working with adult staff to administer tutoring services and resources to 30+ tutoring groups
• Founder and president of Richard Montgomery outh Harmony, organizing instrumental erformaces in senior homes to spread the joy of music
• Founder and co-presient of the Feamale Financial Force, which stries to bring busniess to younf firls all over the world through busniess competitions and monthly panelist events.

Hello! I’m Kent Zhang, a sophomore at Wootton High School. I’m very thankful for this opportunity and all the support I’ve received from the Chinese community. I hope to continue working for my community!One way I gave back to the Chinese community was by creating English classes for local Chinese seniors. I helped set up the facilities, curriculums, and teachers. I’ve worked on a tennis ball recycling program, where we collect and recycle used tennis balls. With the help of many volunteers, I hope to make tennis a cleaner sport! To spread my passion for robotics, I’ve helped host classes and seminars for many people. This included young refugees, local middle schools, Boy Scouts, and more.

Montgomery Blair High School

Community Service Activities:
Founder of Run and Hit Tennis Club

Hosted Thanksgiving Tournament with CCACC
Held hitting sessions with young tennis players

Photography leader of CAPA-JRC

Wrote and took photos for articles

Member of IT Club

Created websites for non-profit organizations

Richard Montgomery

High School

As co-president of the CAPA G&G Club, I launched a project

about recycling polyethylene plastic bags and films that are not

recycled by the county. As of now, I have led many outreach activities

and, with the help of the club, collected 485 pounds of plastic film

since the beginning of the year.

My service within the G&G club also includes tending to our

club’s garden and donating the crops to senior centers and food banks.

Additionally, as part of the CAPA IT club, I’ve also been

contributing towards the development of the new CAPA website.

CAPA-MC Youth Volleyball/Basketball Club Head Coach: Co-Founded a Youth Volleyball/Basketball club under the support of CAPA-MC, which provides young players an early exposure to sports and promotes their athletic, social, and academic capabilities

• Organized volleyball/basketball practices with over 30 elementary/middle school students
• Taught players how to properly warm-up, and prevent injuries
• Promoted an introductory understanding of volleyball rules
• Recruited and trained junior coaches to support future club activities

Chief Intern at The Tacy Foundation: Organized the cards project team and lead several local volunteers

• Coordinated with other volunteers to create, distribute, collect, sort, organize, and deliver warm message cards to various groups, including senior citizens, hospital patients, military veterans, first responders, and anyone else who needs emotional support
• Responded to the requests of card distribution, collection, processing, transportation and delivery

Co-Founder, Silvergale Corporation: Co-Founder and Vice President of a high school aerospace club which works on high altitude ballooning

• Founded and lead a high school team/nonprofit organization to provide aerospace engineering experience to underclassmen
• Worked on high altitude balloon projects to study atmospheric properties
• Promoted interest in aerospace for students at Montgomery Blair High School

One of the initiatives I have been involved in is serving as the Aplus Team Leader and an English teacher at iTeach, a youth service organization dedicated to assisting Chinese American seniors. For the past 2 years, in this role, I have taught English to a class of 25+ seniors, focusing on common vocabulary and phrases. I took the responsibility of ensuring effective communication between members as well as mentoring new members of the organization. I’ve also been involved with Senior Planet, where I provided one-on-one tutoring sessions to seniors, assisting them in resolving various technological issues. As part of the CCACC Youth Dragon Dance Team, I also led the dragon during practices, performances, and parades at events across the DMV area.

Jacob is an active member of his church youth group, where he assisted with teaching grades K-5 for Sunday School throughout the year and Vacation Bible School during summers. This summer, he will be leading those VBS activities as part of a team in Chumphon, Thailand (about 300 miles to the south of Bangkok). He has a particular interest in service to the poor and marginalized in his community and his work at the St. Bartholomew House in Bethesda, MD deepened his appreciation for the elderly. As a leader in the chess club at Walt Whitman high school, he also organized volunteer opportunities at a local community center, working with underprivileged youth receiving subsidized after-school care.