From an online session with more than 30 participants to bringing Red Cross hands-on training onto campus.
In March 2026, well-known education commentator Zhang Xuefeng died from sudden cardiac arrest. Many students discussed the news. I found myself returning to a question I had been thinking about for years: if someone near us suddenly went into cardiac arrest, what would we do?
I contacted a volunteer instructor with first-aid teaching experience and asked whether we could organize an online session for students and parents. We kept it online to make participation easier, and more than 30 students and parents joined.
More than 30 people is not a “large event.” But seeing people stay online for more than an hour made me feel, for the first time, that the posters I had made, the information I had researched, and the things I had learned were beginning to connect with other people.
In September 2026, we tried to bring Red Cross first-aid training onto campus. Instructors came to the school for a hands-on class, and students who met the requirements could receive the relevant certificate after completing the course.
To encourage sign-ups, I used AI to help create a campus recruitment poster. More than 20 students registered. What surprised me was that members of the school facilities staff also asked whether they could join. I realized that first aid was not just a student-club topic.
Actually organizing a training session was much more complicated than I had imagined. Contacting instructors, confirming dates, preparing the room, moving equipment, managing sign-ups, and reminding everyone to complete online study and tests — much of the work was routine and not something that looks impressive on a list of “achievements.”
Those details taught me something important: making an idea actually happen often depends less on a polished statement and more on someone being willing to finish one unglamorous task after another.
From an online public class to an in-person training session, I did not feel that I had “completed a project.” I simply learned that getting people to actually show up and learn is much harder than coming up with a good idea.
