High School Mentoring at MoCA
HIGH SCHOOL MENTORING AT MOCA January was National Mentoring Month and this year, mentees and their mentors were guided through Chinese American history at the Museum of Chinese in America. Mentees were also given a tour of the FOLD exhibit, which highlighted incredible paper sculptures made by undocumented Chinese migrants who were detained for years in NYC after […]
Volunteer with Apex in Brooklyn!
Exciting news! Apex is expanding our middle school mentoring program to a new Brooklyn site and we need your help. The majority of the students who attend our partner school in Bensonhurst (Brooklyn) are recent immigrants from China. They would benefit greatly from having a mentor to guide them through this transition. We’re looking for new […]
Alumni Career Panel at Refinery 29
On June 30, 2016, Apex for Youth hosted a career panel for former mentees with speakers from a wide range of industries including finance, journalism/fashion, technology, hotel/restaurant management and healthcare at Refinery29, located on 225 Broadway. Jian Dong, MD (Mt. Sinai Residence Physician and Graduate of NYU Medical School), John Zhang (Software Engineer – Google), […]
Career Day at Estée Lauder Companies
One of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of skin care, makeup, and fragrance products located on 5th Avenue, the Estée Lauder Companies, invited our Apex for Youth mentors and mentees to Career Day on Friday, April 29. Not many of us were familiar with the beauty industry and its marketing, so the panelists introduced […]
Opening Day 2015
We started off another school year with Opening Day, a group event where we take our mentors and mentees out of the city for a day of outdoor bonding and fun. Many of our new mentors and mentees met for the first time! This year we took them to Bear Mountain, where mentors and mentees […]