Apex for Youth Establishes Norman C.T. Liu Apex Scholarship Fund to Help Asian and Immigrant Students Attend College
NEW YORK – April 14, 2016 – Apex for Youth, Inc. today announced the establishment of the Norman C.T. Liu Apex Scholarship Fund at its annual Inspiration Awards Gala. Founded in 1992, Apex for Youth is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City that offers educational and mentorship programs to underserved Asian and immigrant youth in grades 1 […]
Holiday Party
Check out the photos from our latest holiday party for our youth!
Mentoring Highlight: Thankful Trees
In preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday, we asked our middle school mentoring pairs to think about gratitude and what they’re thankful for this holiday season. We started off with a worksheet to get them warmed up,including questions like: Describe a special favor you received and how it helped and touched you Describe a special gift […]
Mentoring Highlight: Halloween!
For our pre-Halloween middle school mentoring session, we broke up our mentoring pairs into teams to make Halloween costumes out of everyday materials: aluminum foil, tissue paper, toilet paper, string, construction paper and markers. With some teamwork, they came up with a whole gamut of costumes! We saw a unicorn, Tarzan, a mummy, a pirate, […]
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 […]
Program Highlight: Middle School Summer Programs
For the first time this summer, we hosted the Apex Summer Program at our after school sites during the month of July — at P.S. 184 in the Chinatown area and the Corpus Christi School on the Upper West Side. Our middle school students got to choose from a slate of classes, including photography, yoga, […]
Closing Day 2015
Closing Day signifies the end of the mentoring program for the school year, and is also when we officially bid farewell to our graduating seniors. This year, we brought more than 120 mentors, mentees and volunteers from both our Queens and Manhattan mentoring programs up to the Riverdale Country School for a day of bonding and […]
Mentoring Highlight: Scavenger Race!
What better way to celebrate spring than with a fun outdoor activity? Our Middle School Mentoring Program set out in Chinatown to complete a scavenger race, exploring the area, visiting well-known landmarks, and completing challenges at checkpoints. We drew inspiration from hit TV show The Amazing Race and combined it with a traditional scavenger hunt, […]
Mentoring Highlight: Park Community Service
One of the values we try to instill in our students is giving back to the community, so we recently took our middle school mentoring pairs (and a few high school pairs) on two community service park events to get them started! It was the first time volunteering for many of our mentees. On […]
Spring SAT Prep Program is a Wrap!
We just wrapped another grueling semester of SAT Prep this past weekend. We had 36 motivated students this semester who devoted 3 hours each Saturday to prep for the SAT. Not to mention our 23 volunteer tutors who spent time brushing up on their SAT Prep skills, climbing to the 5th floor each week, and […]
Adventures in Snow Tubing
We revived a past mentoring group activity last Saturday: snow tubing! The day started with a pizza lunch at P.S 1 in Chinatown before we ventured out to DropZone Snow Tubing Park at Mountain Creek in New Jersey. Upon arrival, our 86 mentors and mentees immediately hit the park, ascending up the hill on a […]
Mentoring Highlight: January Community Service
Our mentors and mentees went out into the community again in January and volunteered at four different soup kitchens. Together, they were able to: 1) Prepare, serve, and deliver hot nutritious meals to the homeless and needy 2) Pack meals, clothes, and toiletries for those in need 3) Share a smile, greeting, and moment with […]
Holiday Party 2014
We hosted our largest holiday party yet at PS 1 on Saturday, Dec. 20, with 150 students from our elementary program there and our middle school mentees. Some of our high school mentees also came out with their mentors to help run game stations and the photo booth (check out their awesome signs below). From […]
NBA Cares x Apex
NBA Cares came out on Saturday, December 13, to run a skills clinic for our basketball youth. New York basketball legend and former NBA player Felipe Lopez hosted, training our coaches on the various drills. We had over 100 kids from our 5 partner elementary schools and one middle school, but Felipe captured their attention […]
Mentees Give Back
At Apex, our goal is for our youth to graduate as confident, college-ready individuals who give back to the community. We aim to instill a sense of community service by setting up volunteer sessions with other organizations throughout the city. Over Thanksgiving weekend, a group of our mentors took their mentees out to various sites and: […]
MS Mentoring Highlight: Popsicle Sticks!
At the last Saturday session, our middle school mentoring pairs got to work on honing their communication skills at PS 1. They did several exercises, but had the most fun testing their verbal limits with popsicle sticks! We divided the group into three mentoring pairs per team, and each mentee got a turn to describe […]
Opening Day 2014
We kicked off a new year for our mentoring programs with lunch and fun activities at the Belmont Lake State Park in Long Island for our annual Opening Day. Upon arrival at the park, mentors and mentees played icebreaker games to get to know others in the program. Afterward, they got their hands dirty trying […]