{"id":1809,"date":"2018-11-14T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymeakid.org\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2019-08-09T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:51:56","slug":"memphis-entrepreneurship-academy-chess-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/memphis-entrepreneurship-academy-chess-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mission of\u00a0Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club (age 7-18) is to have a positive impact on children\u2019s lives through the game of chess, imparting life skills, character qualities,\u00a0 the importance of\u00a0building confidence and self-esteem. Chess gives children the\u00a0 ability and also help them develop maturity and learn life lessons through their efforts. The Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club emphasis on \u2018life skills\u2019 is at the core of what we teach.<\/p>\n

\"\"Why Chess,\u00a0According University of Memphis<\/span>\u00a0research<\/span>, playing chess significantly improves children\u2019s visual memory, attention span, and spatial-reasoning ability.<\/span>\u00a0On<\/span>ichess.<\/span>net<\/span>, the writers note that the skills we learn from chess benefit us in other areas of life: \u201cIf we all teach children to play chess when they\u2019re four or five, they will be primed for school.<\/span>\u00a0Chess teaches children fundamentals, like problem solving, focus, patience, and follow through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 1973, Dr. Albert Frank conducted an oft-cited<\/span>\u00a0landmark study<\/span>\u00a0called \u201cChess and Aptitudes\u201d in which children received chess instruction for two hours a week.<\/span>\u00a0He found a significant correlation between the ability to play chess well, and spatial, numerical, and administrative-directional abilities.<\/span>\u00a0The game also appears to improve verbal skills by exercising functions of the brain related to language.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other scientific<\/span>\u00a0studies<\/span>\u00a0have found that the brains of expert chess players differ from non-chess players.<\/span>\u00a0Looking at MRIs,<\/span>\u00a0researchers saw<\/span>\u00a0that grandmaster chess players have more activity in their frontal and parietal cortices, the parts of the brain that focus on problem-solving and recognition.<\/span>\u00a0Advanced players also use both sides of the brain when they are playing this is noteworthy because using both sides of the brain has been found to<\/span>\u00a0help prevent dementia<\/span>\u00a0from developing later in life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club wants to give every kid a chance to learn this very important game that has change the life of so many children.\u00a0Students in our camps are taught at their level of understanding and are grouped with other kids of similar ability in order to provide an effective learning opportunity for children of all experience levels.\u00a0Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club are accepting children ages 7 – 18 years old.<\/p>\n

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The mission of\u00a0Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club (age 7-18) is to have a positive impact on children\u2019s lives through the game of chess, imparting life skills, character qualities,\u00a0 the importance of\u00a0building confidence and self-esteem. Chess gives children the\u00a0 ability and also help them develop maturity and learn life lessons through their efforts. The Memphis Entrepreneurship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,33],"tags":[56,55,57],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-frontpage-blog","category-news","tag-chess-club","tag-kids-chess","tag-kids-chess-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contaminasian.com\/dir1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}