Friday, December 17, 2010

318 Chess in the NY Times!

New York City Public School Repeats and Repeats as National Chess Champion

Winning chess championships has become a habit at Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn. 

Last Sunday, for the second time in three years, I.S. 318, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, won the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade sections of the National Scholastic K-12 Championship in Florida. In 2008, the school, accomplished the same feat. Last year, I.S. 318 won the sixth- and seventh-grade championships, but finished second in the eighth-grade section to Canyon Vista Middle School in Austin, Tex. 

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hhmph! Federal funds!





;)

Anonymous said...

**Snort** Private donations!!


:^0

Philip Sells said...

Why does IS 318, a public school, have a .com Web address and not a .edu?