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Chess Club captures Pine Bluffs students' interest

Most every Friday morning students congregate in a classroom for two hours to play the old game of chess. Beginning in the fall of 2015, Pine Bluffs Junior-Senior High English Teacher Eric Kestner wanted to offer something for students on Fridays.

"Friday school offers students a chance for remediation, but we also wanted to offer enrichment opportunities for our students," Kestner explained. "Chess club fits that role perfectly."

With just a handful of students attending when it first began, Kestner said at the end of the school year last year, there were over 50 students who attended chess c...

 

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