Mrs. Kathy Gold received her Bachelor of Music degree (Theory & Composition) from Butler University in Indianapolis and her Master of Music degree (Music Composition) from the University of North Texas in Denton.

Since that time, Mrs. Gold has dedicated her life to music and the sharing of it with others. That includes: traveling the world full time with her sisters in the gospel singing group “The Jones Sisters”; playing piano and viola with the Alliance (OH) Symphony Orchestra; being an adjunct professor of music and staff accompanist at the University of Mount Union in Alliance; playing saxophone with the Big Band Sound and the Canton Concert Band; teaching music classes in public and private schools for students aged K-12; and teaching Home Schoolers music classes for ages 3-8, using the Orff-Schulwerk philosophy of experiencing and performing music.

Mrs. Gold recently moved to Duncannon, Pennsylvania, from Canton, Ohio, where she still maintains a studio of 14 private students that she teaches in person and via FaceTime and Skype. Mrs.Gold has been a private teacher of piano, voice, and other instruments for over 30 years and a judge for National Piano Guild auditions for 7 years.

Adjudicating for Guild auditions has been particularly rewarding for Mrs. Gold, as she loves to see students of all ages and abilities perform all different genres of piano music. Remembering that she, herself, had struggled at times to remain focused on the task of learning piano repertoire, she enjoys having the opportunity to encourage others to just keep on ‘keepin’ on” because the rewards for doing so are immense.

Mrs. Gu is a well-known Guzheng instructor in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Over the past years, she has made unremitting efforts to devote herself to teaching the concept of Guzheng technique and dedication. In practice, she has constantly summarized and innovated, formed her own unique teaching style, and trained many outstanding Guzheng players. Her students have achieved excellent results in many competitions. Mrs. Gu has also won the "Outstanding Teacher Award" and the "Outstanding Contribution" award numerous times. During her teaching career, Mrs. Gu and her students have successfully held 11 Guzheng concerts.

Mr. Shaw became active in playing violin in music bands from middle school through graduate school. In the Washington metropolitan area, he performed with two orchestras, Washington American Chinese Orchestra and Washington Asian American Philharmonic Orchestra between 1998-2010, including in Strathmore music center, Kennedy Performing Art Center and Music Concert Hall at University of Maryland. Since 2006, he has been teaching violin classes in the American Chinese School at Rockville campus. He founded Youth Orchestra of American Chinese School in 2007 and has been serving as its music director and conductor. Mr. Shaw organizes several performing events for kids every year, including Chinese New Year concerts in Kennedy Art Performing Center in 2019, Christmas celebrations, school anniversary celebrations and other occasions. He also directed his students to perform string quartet in local communities.

Mrs. Yin came from Beijing originally. She has been teaching Chinese Classes at the American Chinese School since 2007, as well as at the Franklin and Jefferson Montessori School. She also participated as a judge in the "China Cup" Recitation Competition in the past.

For more than ten years, Mrs. Yin has been actively participating in various art ministries of the "Good News Ministries"; some of the performances that she has been in are musical operas "Wonderful Salvation", the f ive-act drama "White Lilies", and the symphonic poem "Ode to Christ". She is also in the Church Choir at Rockville Evangelical Mission Church (REM), where she sings and performs sketches.

Mrs. Pan is currently a Chinese dance teacher at the Potomac Chinese School. She originated the adult Chinese Dance Rhythm class at the school in 2014. In 2019, her original dance choreography “Dai Rhyme” and the adult dance class from the school participated in the Overseas Taoli Cup Dance Competition. The dance presentation won an Excellent Performance Award and was highly recognized by the judges.

Mrs. Pan started Chinese dance training as a young child in China and has developed a lifelong passion f or dance, devoting most of her spare time in dance training and teaching. From the early 1990s to today, she is continuing Chinese dance and ballet studies with several prominent dance educators in the Washington D.C. area. She was one of the original members of the Hua Sha Chinese Dance Center and participated in many dance performances in the Washington D.C. area as a lead dancer.

Mr. Yan graduated in 1996 with a major of education. He used to be a middle school teacher from 1998 to 2000 in Harbin, China. He has been teaching Chinese for more than eight years in the U.S. Currently, Mr Yan is teaching virtual Chinese summer camp, Culture Tour of China, at Hope Chinese School. He created and developed the new curriculum and teaching plan for the virtual summer camp. He immerses his skills of computer technology in online teaching with broad knowledge of Chinese culture and history.

Mr. Yan works full-time as a software engineer in a software company in Rockville Maryland. He is a dedicated and strict teacher who loves to work with kids.

Ms. Huang has over seven years of education experience in Preschool, Elementary school and Middle school in China, Singapore and the United States. She is a professionally-certificated Orff music and Montessori teacher for primary school education. In addition, she is an accomplished piano, flute and dancing teacher, and has coached many children for dance competitions.

Ms. Huang used to work as a Chinese teacher and Orff Music teacher in Washington Yuying Public Charter Elementary School. In 2018, Ms. Coco co-started RedApple education company in Montgomery Maryland. She led 14 staff and managed 5 after-school program and summer camps in different location successfully. She loves her job as a teacher, and works hard to continuously provide the best education for the kids.

Mr. Tao originally from Shangdong. He was the one of the initiators of our virtual talent show. Mr. Tao serves as a deacon for children related matters mainly focused on arranging and teaching children’s Sunday school classes and worships in the Chinese Christian Church in Germantown (CCCG). During this unusual summer of 2020, Mr. Tao created a Summer Chef Class to enrich the children’s home activities. Kids are encouraged to sign up with their parents, and demonstrate how to cook a dish via a zoom meeting. He has been leading the summer chef class every Friday since June.

Mr. Tao has been actively participating in the studying, teaching, researching in the biological field in the last couple decades. Currently, he is working for a biological company as a director of marketing and service.

Lena Choudhary, JD, MS, RN is an associate professor of nursing at Montgomery College. She has been teaching for over 12 years. Her content focus is on legal and ethical issues in nursing along with work site environments particularly lateral violence or bullying in the nursing profession. She has presented at numerous conferences and faculty and student forums on this topic. She has also published various articles in nursing journals. Her most recent being Educational Strategies for Conflict Management” in Nursing 2018 (December 2018). She also wrote/directed/ and edited a open educational resource video and simulation template on incivility through a NSP II grant. She has taught at the bachelor's and graduate level as well.

Dr. Choudhary’s specialty is in public health nursing, particularly vulnerable populations, domestic and international. Her volunteer work with the Forage Center and the Atlantic Promise simulations for over 7 years is supported by her continued professional development in nursing simulation which has grown in use tremendously in the last 10 years. Dr. Choudhary currently serves as chair of the Community Engagement Committee for Montgomery College's nursing department. She has led nursing students to participate in many community volunteer opportunities including working in medical tents for marathon, community health fairs, Remote Area Medical clinics, and even study abroad opportunities.