中文学校参加匹兹堡中华文化节活动

        2024年9月21日，中文学校应匹兹堡华人文化中心邀请参加了其在梅隆公园举举办的一年一度的匹兹堡中华文化节活动。为了更好地宣传和参与这次活动，校长、副校长等学校领导进行了详细的讨论和安排，包括活动形式、志愿者工作分配等。

        活动当天早上9点左右，校长、副校长、董事长和部分志愿者老师开始布置展台。随后，更多志愿者陆续到来，展台上摆满了精心准备的学校介绍材料、义卖小商品和特色游戏材料。随着美国国歌的唱响，本次文化节也正式拉开了序幕。中文学校的展台位于表演舞台的右侧，醒目的横幅和丰富多彩的活动吸引了众多目光。活动包括惟妙惟肖的脸部彩绘、精细的月饼制作、中华文化纪念品、毛笔书法和折扇作画等。尽管正午的雷阵雨让活动暂时中断了一会，但是整个活动直至5点半结束期间，展台志愿者几乎忙碌不停。很多人对中文学校的教学与课程内容表现出来了极大的兴趣，学校宣传手册分发出近60来张，同时义卖物品获得近140美金将用于中文学校的日常开销。

       此次活动获得了圆满成功，感谢当天的志愿者老师和同学们的辛苦付出，是他们让更多人看到了中文学校的过去和未来。 作为此次唯一一家被邀请的匹兹堡中文教学机构，我们非常珍惜这样一个与匹兹堡不同族群分享匹兹堡中文学校近45年的办学和教育理念的机会，也希望有更多人参与到中文学校的发展之中。

On September 21, 2024, Pittsburgh Chinese School (PCS) was invited by the Pittsburgh Chinese Cultural Center (PCCC) to participate in the annual Pittsburgh Chinese Cultural Festival (PCCCF) held at Mellon Park. To ensure effective promotion and participation, the principal and the vice principal, along with other school leaders, held detailed discussions and plans, including planning the event format and allocating volunteer tasks.

Around 9 a.m. on the day of the event, the principal, the vice principal, the Board chair, and some volunteer teachers began setting up the booth. As more volunteers arrived, the booth was filled with carefully prepared school introduction materials, small items for sale, and special game materials. With the singing of the U.S. national anthem, the cultural festival officially began. The PCS booth, located to the right of the performance stage, attracted many visitors with its prominent banner and a variety of activities related to traditional Chinese culture. These activities included face painting, mooncake making, Chinese cultural souvenirs, calligraphy, and fan painting. Despite a brief interruption due to a thunderstorm at noon, the volunteers at the booth remained busy almost non-stop until the event ended at 5:30 p.m. Many attendees showed great interest in PCS’s teaching and curriculum, with nearly 60 brochures distributed and about $140 raised from the sale of items, which will be used for the school’s daily expenses.

The event was a great success, thanks to the hard work of the volunteer teachers and students, who helped showcase the past and future of PCS. As the only Chinese teaching institution invited to this event in Pittsburgh, we cherish this opportunity to share PCS’s nearly 45-year history and educational philosophy with different communities in Pittsburgh and hope for more people to participate in the development of PCS.