Radiant Readers serves kids district-wide

By Shannan Chan

Over the last two years, the world has seen a massive setback to education and development in youth, especially those in primary school. As more and more concerns arise from teachers, parents, and many others, this subjects, but impacts one subject the most: reading. That’s why the Radiant Readers Club (RRC) is here to help, aiming for second and third-graders to boost their literacy skills.

The RRC was established becoming a club last year. The project itself, however, has been running for a little longer. club board as well as other members, who are labeled as through Zoom meetings every Monday evening. This includes reading time, game time, such as Pictionary or Stickman, and a review of vocab, all from 7:30 p.m. to 8:40 p.m.. This schedule includes perks, like no required of volunteering from home.

Silver Award project as we want to inspire kids and to have a safe online environment for reading. The RRC’s purpose is to give back and help kids become more said junior and club president Vivian Yang.

The club has experienced huge growth and expansion since last year, from 10 to 13 elementary school students to now serving a whopping number of 65. RRC not only targets just the Castro others as well.

When asked about what goals the club hopes to achieve this school year, the problem of time limited Zoom meetings occur.

Since July 15, 2022, Zoom has changed the meeting time limit to 40 minutes, causing inconvenience to the RRC meetings as well as complications with breakout rooms. However, the club is hopeful that they will get through their dilemma.

“We went through a lot of setbacks actually, even now. We’re trying to come up with a solution, and we’re currently in a jam so we hope to have a fundraiser in the future,” says Yang.