With the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, our country and communities are facing an unprecedented crisis. Over 50,000 lives have been lost in our country alone and many hospitals and medical centers have a dire need for Proper Protective Equipment (PPE), including surgical masks, face shields, N95s, sanitizers, gloves, safety gowns, and transport media.

We at Illumony, founded by a group of TJ students to serve underprivileged communities, have witnessed the growing scarcity of such life-saving equipment. As such, we have been tutoring students online to address students’ learning needs and to raise money for local and national hospitals.

Please see our Courses section for more details. Every penny we make will be donated to hospitals.

We are concerned residents in NOVA who are taking the initiative to protect healthcare workers from the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded hospitals short on medical supplies. We started this fundraising campaign to secure urgently needed medical masks for local hospitals. The face masks will be used for patient source control, which prevents contamination of the surrounding area when a person coughs or sneezes. Studies have shown that the usage of surgical masks on patients reduces the risk of transmission by 56%. With all the new developments in the spread of COVID-19, such as its new effects on young people, it becomes more of a necessity not only to contain the infected, but also to prevent the nurses, doctors, and other emergency workers from its spread.

We have worked hard to find resources through our friends and families overseas and were able to secure a stable channel for surgical face masks. If the donations are more than what we need, the remaining fund will be entirely donated to INOVA hospitals. Any donation made will help the stressful situation a lot more bearable.

Joshua Fu is organizing this fundraiser.

Our healthcare workers serve as our community’s first responders on the frontlines of confronting the pandemic, protecting our community’s health and safety. They work around the clock despite uncertainty, danger, and extreme stress. Collaborating with local restaurants, we bring meals to the doctors and nurses of the INOVA hospital system and Reston Hospital. We wish to ease the burden of acquiring three meals a day for our local healthcare workers while supporting our local small businesses. In total, we’ve provided over a thousand meals for day and night shifts of doctors and nurses.

Victoria Li is organizing this fundraiser.

Math For Girls is a project that aims to inspire and motivate girls to pursue a passion in mathematics and problem solving. Our volunteers have had an interest in STEM at a young age and hope to pass the torch to the rest of our community. Math For Girls strives to provide resources and a welcoming community for girls to enhance their performance in the field of mathematics and also expand that interest to more scopes of STEM.

Before the pandemic, our team reached out to local nursing homes and organized visits from Illumony to hold performances for senior citizens. Due to the outbreak of the pandemic, our performances had to be rescheduled to a later date.

Our team is dedicated to promoting STEM to young students in order to give them more opportunities in their academics.

This is an on-going project to host events introducing fun and interactive hands-on activities to students from local elementary schools.

While women make up the majority of all bachelor’s degrees earned in STEM fields, there’s still a LONG way to go to get equal representation in CS degrees. Did you know that women still only represent 1 in 5 CS graduates, even when the percentage of women in CS is finally increasing after a decade of decline? CS For Girls is a project that aims to inspire and motivate girls to pursue a passion for computer science and problem-solving. Our volunteers are committed to putting effort to provide resources and community for girls and support increased diversity in computer science.

This project aims to teach young students the fundamentals of Science, including but not limited to the basics of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. This project covers scientific knowledge, processes, and applications. These concepts will provide a basis for students interested in the Science Olympiad, as well as prepare students for their school science curriculum. We hope this project will inspire and motivate more young students to become future scientists. The teacher is a student at Thomas Jefferson High School who is passionate about Science and has participated and won many awards in the Science Olympiad competition.