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 From The President: Welcome to the Reno American Contract Bridge League Unit #473 Website. The purpose of these pages is to give the members and visitors information about the Reno Bridge Center, daily duplicate tournaments, duplicate bridge classes, the twice monthly "Unit Game", our two Sectional Tournaments in April and August of each year. This year the Sid Davidson Memorial Sectional Tournament will be held August 25-29th at the Ramada Inn on 6th Street, Reno, NV. All games are single session and after the Wednesday start at 1:00PM, the first daily session begins at 10:00AM. Check this site to discover the specificevents that will be held Wednesday through Sunday. Come view our member achievements page and other interesting links. RYB OFFERS NEW PROGRAM FOR WCSD MIDDLE SCHOOLS Reno Youth Bridge announced new plans for teaching bridge to Washoe County Middle School students this week. Kathy Lane, President of RYB, reported the details for the new program scheduled to be initiated in September of this year. After RYB officers met with Washoe County School District's Deputy Superintendent last month, a joint effort has been underway to increase the participation and support by the District Middle Schools teaching students to learn and play contract bridge in prelude to the formation of bridge teams to play in interscholastic competition. Research has shown that students who learned and played bridge performed better on standard academic tests. Certified teachers at each Middle School will have the opportunity to volunteer to become responsible to teach students, organize partnership teams and supervise the school's bridge program in preparation of their school's team participation in tournament play next Spring. Reno Youth Bridge has offered to provide participating certified teachers with an honorarium of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each of two 16 one hour per week class learning sessions along with oversight of student free time practice sessions. In the Spring, RYB will sponsor two major interscholastic tournaments for the students in the program. The first will take place at the Spring Sectional Tournament sponsored by the Reno Unit of the ACBL . A special Pair Event for all students of the County's Middle Schools will be held on the Saturday morning of that event. Following the end of the Spring Semester, Reno Youth Bridge WCSD Middle School Team Championship Tournament will give the school teams a chance to compete against each other. Reno Youth Bridge completed its second year administering a pilot program for teaching bridge to students at the five schools of Shaw, Sparks, Swope and Billinghurst Middle Schools and the High Desert Montessori Charter School. Participating students had the unusual opportunity to play in the American Contract Bridge League's North American Bridge Championships in March of this year at the Grand Sierra Resort. Players from all over the world participated in this event including some of our more famous players. Two celebrity competitors included Bill Gates who visited with the students before their Saturday pair event and Fred Gitelman designer of the popular Bridge Base online computer program that allows participants from all over the world to sit down at their computer and play the game of bridge on the internet. 2010 NABC Reno Youth Bridge Teams  |
News & Announcements Your New Board of Directors SummerSectional at Ramada Inn  2009 Ace Of Clubs 2009 Mini-Mckenney
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