Pictures from the Lily Banquet are available on our Flickr page.
Lily Banquet - April 10, 2008Youth Leadership Council will be hosting a fundraising banquet on Thursday, April 10th at Kim Son Restaurant (Southwest location). The banquet is to raise money to help subsidize our annual Conference to be held at Rice University in June.
The mentor application for YLC Conference 2008 is now available. Download the application from our Become a Mentor page.
The student application for YLC Conference 2008 is now available. Students can download the application from our Conference page.
YLC Conferences only last a single weekend, but they are the result of months and months of hard work and planning. The 2008 YLC Board has been formed, and they're already hard at work on next year's conference. They even have theme! Read all about it in our 2007 Holiday Newsletter.
At long last! Pictures are available online! Our volunteer photographers took over 1000 pictures from Conference 2007. You'll find them conveniently located at gallery.ylc.net.
Just because the Conference is over does not mean YLC is through for the year.
From June 22 to 24, YLC held its annual summer conference. This year's theme of "Rock This World" sought to instill students with a sense of active citzenship. One must step beyond the comforts of academics and career and rise to the challenges that face the world.
YLC is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2006 YLC scholarship: Sujin Yoon and Jennifer Fung. Each student will receive $1000 for college tuition.
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) held Asian-American Career Day on April 28, 2007. The event attracted students and parents of HISD schools and hosted sessions that introduced professionals of many differents career paths - medical, engineering, law, information technology, the arts, and many more. YLC board members were on hand to serve as career facilitators and career speakers.
YLC held its annual fundraising banquet on April 11, 2007. Named "Iris Banquet," the fundraiser attracted over 130 attendees, representing over 30 different local businesses and corporations. Our total donations this year exceeded $20k. Many thanks to all of our sponsors for their generous support!
Capital One awarded Youth Leadership Council $700 for winning a pancake stacking contest. The contest was a part of the grand opening celebration of its new branch office on Westheimer and Dunvale. YLC managed to stack 31 pancakes in 60 seconds to win the competition!

'M' is for 'mentors,' the people who run the conference each year.