SVTN: Silicon Valley Tsinghua Network

The Spring Picnic

The idea of grouping alumni from Beijing Tsinghua in the Silicon Valley can be traced as early as 1994. Led by Hong Dong, the very first Spring Picnic was held on a sunny spring day in 1994. A small group of Beijing Tsinghua alumi with their friends and family gathered in Bayland Park started the fire that has united the alumni of Beijing Tsinghua University every since. The next year (1995), more than 150 Beijing Tsinghua Alumni and their families showed up at the spring picnic. The event was organized by more volunteers, among them there were Jay Deng, Yu Liu, Lifeng Wu, Xusheng Zhang, Liansheng Xie, Datong Chen, Yu Guan, Ying Chen, Jian Li, Don Zhao, Xingping He, Kewei Yang and Li Gong. Witnessed the success of the event, organizers decided to make the spring picnic a tradition for the Tsinghua alumni in the Bay Area. Held every year in the early May, around the same time of the anniversary celebration of our Alma Mater, Tsinghua University in Beijing. The spring picnic has since become a tradition for alumni in the Silicon Valley to reunite with friends from the school days and to make connections with new ones. It’s a day of sunshine, friendship and delicious food.

Silicon Valley Tsinghua Network (SVTN) is a non-profit organization. If you graduated from Tsinghua University or are interested in Tsinghua, live or work in the US, you are eligible to be our members. The goal of the SVTN is to provide a way for Tsinghua alumni and their friends to renew the old tie in past and to build new relationship for future. It is an organization open to public. It is mission is to help the new comers to settle in the new environment, and help all the members in finding new jobs, learning the cutting edge technologies, bridging the gap among different groups, and help resolving any issues among its members. There is no membership fee, but you are welcome to donate any amount of money to support us..