GaoYang

GaoYang loved exploring and meeting people. After making her bamboo bike, she rode through the neighborhood interview BBB's neighbors and bringing them to the workshop.

She and her girlfriend made a messageboard outside of BBB introducing the community neighbors, including BBBers, so that everyone could continue feeling comfortable meeting each other!

Bamboo Bicycles Beijing Fellows: The Class of 2016 from David Wang on Vimeo.

Eason

Eason has always thought about organizations, management, and marketing. As a junior in university in Fujian, he came up to Beijing for the summer, built a bike, and decided that he would love to get more young people in the door. He got the message out by beginning to partner with local youth hostels and businesses, developing BBB's WeChat, and connecting with other media.

Bamboo Bicycles Beijing Fellows: The Class of 2016 from David Wang on Vimeo.

Jason

I was first introduced to BBB by Max Feldstein Nixon, we’ve been friends since 2 years back and I was more than happy to spend another summer with him in Beijing. Building bicycles using bamboo first sounded to be like a somehow strange but absolutely awesome idea, and the fact that I enjoy cycling myself but haven’t been involved in any official bicycle-related activities made it a even more exciting opportunity for me. I did expect BBB to be a fun place and myself to be doing fun stuff before I went to Beijing, however, I did not anticipate how much fun it actually was. Along with other summer interns, I was taught to build my own bamboo bicycle from scratch; the amount of details involved in the process never stop to amaze me, which makes the integrity of the final bike frame beyond impressive. Once built, it undoubtedly became my favorite bike of all time, not only because it looks awesome but also that I built it (thanks to the help from the others in BBB) by myself. I was able to develop all sorts of bike related skills (not sure if 拔罐 counts), and I have grown (hopefully) from worrying about breaking a bike all the time, to finally being able to fix the bike that I have eventually somehow broken. (And of course not ending up breaking that many.) Thanks to BBB, I started thinking about the cause and solution of existing problems before getting my clumsy hands on them, which has made many aspects of my work more efficient and my hands not that clumsy.I also thank BBB for enabling me to become friends with some of the coolest people I have ever met in my life so far. David, Candy, Karen, Marshall, Eason, Claudio, Mowgli, Dangao…. Every one of BBB’s members has his/her own unique and interesting life experiences that makes me jealous yet grateful for being included in such a community, I believe and appreciate the fact that more stories are yet to be told by us and more people are yet to be brought together by BBB.

For my summer project, following a report forwarded to me by David, I assembled a bamboo strength testing machine that was able to perform multiple tests on different pieces of bamboo. I noticed that when people first hear about the concept of bamboo bicycles they always address the concern regarding bamboo’s strength, and it is commonly believed that bamboo is not reliable as bike frame building material. Therefore, using the test machine I carried out 2 experiments testing both bamboo’s compressive strength and flexural strength in order to give a quantitative measure of its property and visually prove bamboo’s reliability at the same time. The results are promising, it was seen that a piece of bamboo with a diameter of 5-7 cm can withstand 20N/mm2 which is equivalent to more than 3 tons of force on one such piece, and chosen samples of long bamboo sticks are tested to be tougher than aluminum pipes. Except for the machine being a pain to move around and assemble, I would say the outcome was encouraging.

Although the summer fellowship ended a month ago, many moments still feel like yesterday. Thanks to BBB, I had one of the best summers ever. I need to especially thank Max for introducing me to BBB, supporting me through all the personal issues, pushing me to think for myself, motivating me when I was not in perfect mood, and just being such a great roommate and friend that always supports and inspires me. I would also like to thank David for recruiting me as one of the interns and giving me guidance on my project, without your leadership this summer program would never have worked so well. Also I would like to thank Marshall and Candy for helping us sort out the apartment rentals, thank you guys for giving me and Max such a comfortable place to stay and enjoy. I want to also say thanks to Karen (from CSU), thank you for being such an amazing singer, friend and just an awesome person in general, for always willing to help me and sharing great stories with me. Finally, I want to say thank you to everyone that I met through BBB, being included in this ever growing 牛逼 community is one of the best thing that has happened to me this year.

I believe my story with BBB has only just started, and I look forward to all the awesome stuff that are going to happen in BBB in the future. See you guys next year!!

Yours,
杰森黄叔叔

Max

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Yuyuan

BBB's 2nd summer intern, Yuyuan, wanted to see how she could use the leftover scraps of bamboo from making bikes and lead her own workshop teaching neighborhoods kids and elderly to make their own bamboo crafts! She organized a workshop with the neighborhood committee down the streets and led a super successful workshop on her own... China's high school students amaze BBB at their capability!
Here is her (rather official) summary of her event:

BBB's 2nd summer intern, Yuyuan, wanted to see how she could use the leftover scraps of bamboo from making bikes and lead her own workshop teaching neighborhoods kids and elderly to make their own bamboo crafts! She organized a workshop with the neighborhood committee down the streets and led a super successful workshop on her own... China's high school students amaze BBB at their capability!

Here is her (rather official) summary of her event.

"7月29日（星期四）由BBB和北锣鼓巷社区共同联合举办了为期一天的利用废弃竹子制作工艺品的活动，由于事先的准备和BBB与社区人员的共同努力，加上有吸引力的手工制作的内容，总体效果较好，为以后的BBB与社区之间活动地开展开启一个良好的先河。 本次活动的目的主要是号召环保，废物利用，同时提高参与人员的动手能力及发散性思维创造力，以及让BBB与社区更好的融合。主要针对的是社区内十二岁左右的小孩和已经退休的老人。

本次活动的前期准备十分充足。我们进行了几天的关于时间分配、演讲稿以及所需人员和材料的问题的讨论，经过反复修改，最终形成一个较为完整的可行性高的计划。

提前一天我们把所需的材料搬到社区中心，但由于时间过了社区下班的时间，所以仅仅是把材料放在了社区，并没有与社区人员提前交流的机会，以至于社区人员不清楚主要流程，使本次活动仍有一些小瑕疵。

现场的参与者对环保及手工制作均有强烈兴趣，都积极参与，反响热烈，做出自己的工艺品呢。

本次活动由bbb工作室内部照相以及天津电视台摄影记录。从活动开始到结束，繁多的照片和录影显示本次活动被完整的记录。最后也由bbb人员录下了几个小孩参与这次活动的感言。由于没有事前说明，遗憾没有拍摄到每个人的成品。

本次活动确实达到了促进bbb与社区融合的效果。一位参与的老人在活动几天之后回到bbb向我们展示了她与她孙女的最终作品。"

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Jackie Chen

Jackie came across BBB as a high school senior. Preparing for his first year of university in the USA, he decided to spend the summer as a BBB Fellow. He focused on too projects: 1) Networking with local businesses and making a map of them; 2) Making bamboo stuff like a bamboo skateboard! Check out the video he made for his univeristy!
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Marshall

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Yuyuan

BBB's 2nd summer intern, Yuyuan, wanted to see how she could use the leftover scraps of bamboo from making bikes and lead her own workshop teaching neighborhoods kids and elderly to make their own bamboo crafts! She organized a workshop with the neighborhood committee down the streets and led a super successful workshop on her own... China's high school students amaze BBB at their capability!
Here is her (rather official) summary of her event:

BBB's 2nd summer intern, Yuyuan, wanted to see how she could use the leftover scraps of bamboo from making bikes and lead her own workshop teaching neighborhoods kids and elderly to make their own bamboo crafts! She organized a workshop with the neighborhood committee down the streets and led a super successful workshop on her own... China's high school students amaze BBB at their capability!

Here is her (rather official) summary of her event.

"7月29日（星期四）由BBB和北锣鼓巷社区共同联合举办了为期一天的利用废弃竹子制作工艺品的活动，由于事先的准备和BBB与社区人员的共同努力，加上有吸引力的手工制作的内容，总体效果较好，为以后的BBB与社区之间活动地开展开启一个良好的先河。 本次活动的目的主要是号召环保，废物利用，同时提高参与人员的动手能力及发散性思维创造力，以及让BBB与社区更好的融合。主要针对的是社区内十二岁左右的小孩和已经退休的老人。

本次活动的前期准备十分充足。我们进行了几天的关于时间分配、演讲稿以及所需人员和材料的问题的讨论，经过反复修改，最终形成一个较为完整的可行性高的计划。

提前一天我们把所需的材料搬到社区中心，但由于时间过了社区下班的时间，所以仅仅是把材料放在了社区，并没有与社区人员提前交流的机会，以至于社区人员不清楚主要流程，使本次活动仍有一些小瑕疵。

现场的参与者对环保及手工制作均有强烈兴趣，都积极参与，反响热烈，做出自己的工艺品呢。

本次活动由bbb工作室内部照相以及天津电视台摄影记录。从活动开始到结束，繁多的照片和录影显示本次活动被完整的记录。最后也由bbb人员录下了几个小孩参与这次活动的感言。由于没有事前说明，遗憾没有拍摄到每个人的成品。

本次活动确实达到了促进bbb与社区融合的效果。一位参与的老人在活动几天之后回到bbb向我们展示了她与她孙女的最终作品。"

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