CSA's Events and Gatherings

Any questions or suggestions regarding past/future CSA events, contact webmaster Norman Lam ( nlam@wpi.edu ).

This year's Dragon Night was a change from the tradition. Students entered to perform on stage to win one of three cash prizes- $25 Dunkin Donuts Gift Card, $50 Price Chopper Gift Card, $150 Gift Card for Anything! Fifteen baskets of Asian snacks and goodies were raffled off and for those who won the on-stage game. The best part of the night- Chinese leftovers! At the end of the program, it was a free for all fight over the left over fried rice, beef broccoli, bbq ribs, and fortune cookies.

Due to last year's overwhelming demand, we extended the Hot Pot Dinner event from one day to two days... and sold out again!

Seniors were honored with a dinner at Minado, an all you can eat Japanese buffet

This year's Dragon Night was a mix of local performers and students. No admission was charged this year- free performances AND food!

As is typical, members of CSA like to attend Hong Kong as their IQP site. CSA's President, Treasurer, as well as 06-07's President attended during C-term of 2006.

ISC's annual Cultural Festival was held on Saturday, February 18th between 1pm and 4pm in Alden Hall.This was an event open to the entire Worcester community in which students from all over the world perform, display/sample foods, clothing, pictures and anything else that bring pride to our resepcties countries. CSA had two tables set up for display. Picture credit to Hauke from German Club.

Hot Pot Party: Hot Pot Party was on Friday at Founders Kitchen from 5:30pm-8pm. It was a delcious and hearty way to eat food that instantly warms your bodies under the chilly temperatures while frigid winds prevailing over WPI campus. Many ate at the hot pot dinner and fellow members from csa go acquainted. Total of 5 tables of delicious food and hungry people with music playing in the background summed up to be an awesome evernt.

GBM: The 2nd General Body Meeting was on wednesday from 5:00pm-6pm at Taylor Room(CC downstairs). Atttendances at every single GBM and club activities are important regarding you are a csa member or not. This meeting discussed about the upcoming event hot pot(11/11/05) and our foundrasing events. More information about club activities was mentioned at the meeting as well as dragon night and suggestion to the club.

Chinese Speaking: This workshop instructed by various Mandarin/Cantonese speaker teaching how to speak the chinese language both mandarin and cantonese. The Chinese language is taught using Chinese language learning books and through dialogue speaking. Chinese language learning workshop is tuesday night from 7:00pm-8:00pm at Taylor Room, if you are interested in learning any of these two languages, come join us and dont forget to bring your friends as well.

Chinese Calligraphy: This workshop instructed by Min discusses rules for writing Chinese characters and participants learn to write some Chinsese characters stroke by stroke, step by step. It begins with simple characters so everyone will be able to handle it. Then the characters from Chinese Zodiac are taught and students are able to learn how to write your own zodiac according to the year you were born. Takes place at Taylor Room from 1:00pm-3:00pm every Sat of A Term.

GBM: The first GBM is a very important meeting regarding the regulations of being a CSA member, as well as an overview of any upcoming events. Take place at Morgan Room at Campus Center, 5:00pm - 6.00pm.

The Night of Dragon: Night of the Dragon has been a traditional event since 1994. This annual event is held on April 22nd this year, where over 200 guests of students, alumni, faculty, staff, and off-campus guests fill Alden Hall for a spectacular night of dinner and performances.This year, we have excellent performances including Lion Dance and martial arts. Free food is served during the performance, so come and figure out what will be shown!  click here for pictures