After-School Club♟️
Orangutan Chess Academy also travels on-site to Seattle-area schools to teach after-school chess enrichment. We are currently at these area schools!
After-School Chess Club is a community for new and experienced students to learn together, including checkmate patterns, tactics, openings, strategy, chess notation, chess history, famous games, local chess events, how to play in chess tournaments, different ways to play chess (variants), how to create a chess variant and more!
ChessKid.com gold memberships are provided to all club members for 24/7 access to puzzles, lessons, and games. OCA has instructed multiple Washington State Chess Champions since 2017. Because younger students frequently have shorter attention spans, OCA offers 10-15 minutes of optional “wind down” time at the end of the club with non-chess videos like TED educational cartoons or the award-winning Shaun the Sheep.