Two of NTHU student organizations, the Torchlight Club and the Nepal Volunteer Corps were recognized by the National Youth Commission for the outstanding services they had organized and rendered. The Torchlight Club won the Dedication to the Community Award in the community service category, while the Nepal Corps won the Second Place Award in international service. The Torchlight Club is a student organization with a long history.

Established in 1990, the Club dedicates itself to assist students from broken families or are in need of psychological consultation. Members of the Club provided tutorial service to assist local students who need educational guidance and run summer camps to introduce various learning and social skills. For example, the Club offered a summer camp designed to enhance participants' coping capabilities in various real life situations last year. This year's summer camp caught the eyes of members of the review panel and received many favorable comments. Wu Tung-lin, President of the Club was delighted with the Award but commented that "when it comes to the contest, we did not make any special effort just for the contest. We concentrated on how to best serve our clients and how to get the best results for the programs we offered."

The Nepal Volunteer Corps is a younger organization. Organized in 2005, the Corps has attracted many enthusiastic and compassionate students to take part in their annual service programs in Nepal. Last summer, the Corps attracted 17 members who went to Nepal and spent 45 days of their summer vacation in a rural community to assist the local youth. Since its establishment six years ago, the Nepal Corps has been recognized twice for the quality of its programs, the first time in 2009 with the Third Place Award and last year, with the Second Place Award.

Mr. Teng-fang Kuo, a member of the Nepal Corps believes that the contests as well as the service program they presented last summer are great learning experience. The success of last summer's program, Mr. Kuo continues, is primarily due to the fact that the Corps was able to learn from their previous experience in Nepal and knows the local condition as well as what kinds of service are needed.