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Upcoming Events:
WSCF Summer Chess Events
June 22-23-24 - Wausau Chess Camp - Wausau
June 22 - 26 - JCC Waterpark Camp - Mequon
June 29-July 2 - Kohler Elementary School - Kohler
July 6-10 - JCC Waterpark Camp - Mequon
July 20- 24 - N'Joy Coffee and Tea - Plymouth
Aug 3 - 7 - JCC Waterpark Camp - Mequon
Aug 10 - 14 - Pewaukee Elementary School - Pewaukee
Aug 17 - 21 - Daniels-Mardak Boys & Girls Club - Milwaukee
Chess - One of Ten Ways to Make Your Kid Smarter - from MSN Health & Fitness
Play mind games Chess, crosswords, cryptograms, riddles—they all train the brain to perform mental gymnastics. Games like Sudoku can be fun while promoting strategic thinking, problem-solving and complex decision-making. Keep brainteasers around the house and challenge your children to help you solve the trickier problems.
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C-Ball ?... Basketchess?... Just plain Cool !
Call it what you want; Please enjoy this video from TNT and the NBA showing the incredible similarities between two popular games.
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Green Bay Scholastic Chess in the news Janelle Peotter is a social worker at Anne Sullivan Elementary School in Green Bay Wisconsin. She runs the after school Chess Club. Janelle has worked with the WSCF to hold chess tournaments at her school. Her chess club is very popular and more than 50 students stay after school to participate. Recently Janelle was featured on the local TV news. She is the Channel 5 "Terrific Teacher of the month." Hillary Golston of WFRV TV in Green Bay reports how Janelle's chess club gives students the opportunity for growth in a lot of areas. Studies have shown that chess skills help give students better problem solving ability in other areas. Janelle says the chess club gives the kids a real sense of accomplishment and helps increase self esteem. Congratulations to Janelle and all the chess club members at Anne Sullivan Elementary School. |
285 Participate at 2009 Grade Level Championship
On Saturday March 7th 2009 285 players from 68 schools throughout Wisconsin converged on the Marion Center in St. Francis for the 2009 Grade Level Championship. Winners of this special championship received medals, trophies and scholarships.
Jordan Smith, a seventh grader from Erin School in Hartland won the top prize in his grade and received a $100 scholarship for 1st place in the 7th & 8th grade combined section.
David Kosy, a senior at Hamilton High school in Sussex won the top prize in his grade and received a $100 scholarship for his 3rd place finish in the combined High School section. Eleventh grader Andrew Grochoski from Cudahy High School won the top prize in his grade and received a $100 scholarship for his 2nd place finish in the combined High School section. Andrew Gorectke, a 9th grader at New Berlin West High School won the top prize in his grade and received a $200 scholarship for his 1st place finish in the combined High School section.
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The Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation is proud to announce it will award Scholarship Funds to winners at 4 upcoming scholastic chess tournaments. According to WSCF founder and President, Bob Patterson-Sumwalt, “The WSCF is dedicated to promoting scholastic chess as a means to academic achievement. The scholarship funds we are awarding this year are a great way for our organization to meet that objective.” In addition to trophies and medals, we will award scholarship funds at four upcoming tournaments.
February 28th 2009 The 4th Annual All Girls Tournament.
$1000 in total scholarship funds will be awarded.
We are thrilled to offer this wonderful tournament held at Devine Savior Holy Angels High School, a private “All Girls” school.
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March 7th 2009 WSCF 2009 Grade Level Championships.
$500 in total scholarship funds will be awarded.
Players compete against others within their own grade. The tournament will be held at the Marion Center in St. Francis.
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March 28th The 4th Annual March of Champions Tournament.
$1000 in total scholarship funds will be awarded.
At the Mother Katherine Daniel's Center in Milwaukee.
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April 18th - 19th The 2nd Annual WSCF State Championship.
$1500 in total scholarship funds will be awarded at the Kalahari Water park Resort and Convention center in the Wisconsin Dells.
Winners in all 4 sections will be eligible for scholarship awards.
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From NBC Nightly News, Chess - making kids "more teachable"
A short video clip from the NBC Nightly News demonstrates how chess is used at over 50 Washington D.C. public schools. Explaining how chess has helped the students in her classroom, Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin, teacher at Thomson Elementary, says "It's not just about this one game. It's about behavior, discipline and problem solving." Bruce-Yamin goes on to say chess is giving the children a "whole new dimension of thinking that they are not getting from other places". See the short clip at the MSNBC website link below. You may have to view a short advertisement before the clip begins.
Mequon's parent-driven chess club : A model for Success
Members of the Mequon Scholastic Chess Club worked hard last year. They took chess lessons from their teacher, played chess against sometimes formidable opponents, completed take-home worksheets, and were expected to master chess notation.
But they also got to wear cool T-shirts, worked their way up a chess ladder, competed in tournaments, visited a water park, attended a pizza party, and earned year-end awards.
That’s the key to the club’s phenomenal success, says Ben Wong, one of its two parent coordinators. “We want to make sure the kids not only learn chess, but also have fun.”...
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Second graders learn the language of chess
At La Escuela Fratney, a bilingual school in Milwaukee, students learn to speak both English and Spanish. But those in Christina Fernandez’s second-grade class also are learning to communicate through chess.
Fernandez couldn’t be more pleased.“It’s like learning another language,” she said of her students’ involvement in the First Move chess curriculum she’s taught in her classroom this year. “Mentally, they’re making new connections, and learning how to think and problem solve in new ways,” she said. “And their ability to concentrate has improved as well.”
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Chess Empowers Young Minds
by Bob Patterson-Sumwalt
There are many myths and stories about the origins of chess. According to David Shenk, author of The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, one of the oldest myths tells of two successive Indian Kings, Hashran and Balhait. King Hashran asked his sage to invent a game symbolizing man’s dependence on destiny and fate...
"My Brilliant Brain - Make me a Genius"
The National Geographic Channel investigates the age-old question of Nature verses Nurture in this special series. My Brilliant Brain - Make Me a Genius features Susan Polgar, the first ever female chess grandmaster. She wasn't born with her brilliant brain, it was "created". Follow her dramatic training, which started at an early age.
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The Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation (WSCF), formerly Milwaukee Area Scholastic Chess Association (MASCA), is a 501(c)(3) non profit association dedicated to promoting chess for our youth in greater Milwaukee and Wisconsin. WSCF coordinates scholastic chess tournaments at area schools, operates a chess school with qualified instructors who follow the WSCF curriculum, offers services through the WSCF chess club coach program, conducts chess club management seminars for parents and teachers, and provides chess club start-up grants.
P.O. Box 170843, Milwaukee, WI 53217-9998 Phone: (262) 573-5624
Friday April 17th, 2009