Students from UVA and PVCC are playing key roles in K-12 Chess Education/Mentoring efforts. The following students are serving a chess mentoring volunteers as follows:
PVCC Students
- Andrew Juers (1st yr)
- Agnor-Hurt ES (Thursday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
- Woodbrook ES (Tuesday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) ***
*** Coming soon
UVA Students
- Cherry Avenue Boys & Girls Club (Tuesday, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm)
- Mason Blake(2 yr); Azam Kahlfe (1st yr); Glassell Fitz-Hugh (4th yr); Thomas Kemp (4th Yr); Oghenakpobo Efekoro [USCF Class A Player](2nd Yr)
- Cherry Avenue Boys & Girls Club (Friday, 4:30 pm – 5 :30 pm)
- Hannah Yang (1st yr); Jason Huang (1st Yr); Rachel Winters *** (MH Staff) , Barry Chin ( yr), Greyson Jones ( yr), Thomas Harrison ( yr) , Melanie Piller ( yr)
- Westhaven Community Center (Tuesday, 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm)
- Christopher Benos (3rd yr) ; Jason Huang (1st Yr)
- Murray HS (Wednesday, 12:15 – 2:00 pm)
- Andrew Brown (UVA Football Team); Chris Peace (UVA Football Team)
- Computers 4 Kids (Wednesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm)
- Brian Lee (2nd yr)
- Owen Masters (UVA Law School)
- Uday Varkhedkar (3rd yr)
- Johnson ES (CCPS)
Playing ACES CHESS is grateful to all of these amazing students for helping bring the joy of chess to these eager K-12 minds.
*** As Rachel would say it she played in the Chess Junior Nationals some years ago and really likes the idea of teaching chess to kids.