Citi Bank – CMC event at the Baking Centre

On Sunday 23rd of October, volunteers from Citi Bank gave a lecture on financial management to the SYB students, as part of their life skills training organised by CMC. The volunteers also got the chance to taste some delicious bread made by the students that week in class!

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Changfeng Park’s Waterworld

This Sunday, 800 TeleServices, long-time supporter of Chi Heng Foundation, invited SYB students to join their Employee Family Fun day at the Waterworld of Changfeng Park. A lot of fun watching the white whale performance, and it was a beautiful day to walk around in the park afterwards. Chung To,

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Walking around Anfu Lu’s bakeries

Today we took the students to see some of the bakeries selling the products they are currently studying. From Anfu Lu to Jing An Si, altogether we visited 12 different bakeries! We had an especially warm welcome at the newly opened Sunflour bakery, where one of our class 1 graduates

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Outing to the Bund

Today we took the students to see the Bund together. Everybody was very excited (most of them had never seen anything like it), taking a lot of pictures with their mobile phones. We also took this opportunity to show them two hotels on the Bund – the Peninsula and the

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Class to Chi Heng summer campers

On August 4th 2011, the 30 children from the Chiheng summer camp were lucky enough to have a baking lesson by the Shanghai Young Bakers! Professors Wang, Zhang and Xiao had just come back from their semester of training in France and were glad to show to the kids a

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Social teambuilding activity with Evonik

Last Sunday, July 3rd 2011, Shanghai Young Bakers students welcomed 22 Evonik employees in their baking centre to take part in a very special team building, where students taught employees how to make bread! The event was co-organized with Forget Me Not (FMN), a non-profit organization bringing together the corporate

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House of Flour – by Erin Kennedy

On Sunday March 21st, 2010, students from Shanghai Young Bakers (SYB) went to meet the incredible pastry chef, baker and entrepre neur Brian Tan, founder of the House of Flour. With the purpose of learning how to make one of Tan’s renowned chocolate cakes, the students of SYB also had

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The Opening Ceremony – by Xiao Jinjin

All of us were led by our teacher to Hotel Sofitel Hyland in the morning. Upon our arrival, there was another teacher leading us into the hall in the hotel. There were guests arriving now and then. Next, the organizer of Shanghai Young Bakers gave a speech. I know clearly

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