JTP Scholastic Chess

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@nolan

The USCF supports scholastics in ways many scholastic programs may be unaware of.

The infrastructure to have tournaments announcements, certified tournament directors, maintain the rules of chess, assign membership IDs, rate events, correct events that are misreported, answer questions about the rules of chess, etc. costs money, far more than 18 cents a game.

Dealing with scholastic players good enought to have FIDE ratings or represent the US in international events costs money, too.

The USCF sends out thousands of things to schools every year. Many of those don’t result in immediate benefit to the USCF, they’re essentially ‘missionary’ activities.

Does anyone know of or have a “polished” presentation that could be customized for local presentations to either school administrations or local corporations and businesses. I’m looking to develop presentations that would encourage local school administrations to support chess clubs in their schools and to take and present to businesses for fund raising efforts.

I would think that I would not be the first person to have this need and that the USCF might have actually made some presentations like this in its efforts to promote chess and specifically scholastic chess. Would the USCF organization or the many members be willing to share MS Powerpoint or other multimedia presentation materiel or simply an outline of presentations given? I’m thinking with a little work, a pretty polished presentation could be developed and made available. I’ll gladly share whatever I come up with to anyone.