Glasgow Spotlights Alexander Nguyen During AAPI Heritage Month

Glasgow is celebrating this month by spotlighting Alexander Nguyen, an 8th grader at Glasgow. Though Alexander was born in America, his family is from South Vietnam, and he has visited his relatives in Ho Chi Minh City [or Saigon] three times. He remembers when he was around seven years old and visited this city, “I would just talk to neighbors, and go to the local water park nearby with other kids.”
Alexander’s religion is centered around Buddhism. In his culture, he gets together with family a lot where they talk or go to parties. He also shared that besides all of the regular American holidays, he celebrates Chinese New Year, where he goes out with family and friends to party.
Alexander loves to code, and is in Mr. Floyd’s Coding 2 class at Glasgow. He is learning the basics and is mainly self taught. “Whenever I watch other people code, or see how websites work, it just fascinates me,” says Alex, explaining where the inspiration originates from. Alex is also on the Glasgow New Show: Good Morning Glasgow. He decided to sign up for that class last year because when watching other schools’ news shows he thought it looked really fun and wanted to try it. He enjoys the technology aspect of this class the most, and shared that his favorite position is being the camera operator.
Alexander likes the diversity of Glasgow. “It’s nice to meet new people with different hobbies.” Take the time to get to know others from this community full of diverse culture, and celebrate our AAPI students.

Brooke Ehmann - Jones (she/her), an 8th grader at Glasgow MS has been a writer for the Panther Post since the 2020 school year. She has lived in Northern Virginia all of her life and plays on a soccer team, loves playing music on her saxophone and the piano, enjoys reading, writing, cooking, and painting, and loves spending time outdoors on the many hikes she and her family have been on. Brooke is also very passionate about the environment and enjoys learning about nature, and volunteering to protect it. She has two cats at home, and loves traveling to national parks with her family.
Rania Seid
May 24, 2022 at 9:46 am
Nice article!