Preparing children, adolescents and young people for life, through practices that combine technology, sport and education. This is the focus of the Checkmate project, carried out by the Instituto Ramacrisna , sponsored by Vale, through the Federal Sports Incentive Law. The objective is to promote sporting experience through robotics and chess activities, benefiting 448 children and young people between 6 and 18 years of age, in situations of social vulnerability, public school students and residents of Betim. The duration of the project is 2 years.
The Checkmate project was designed with the aim of providing students with access to Educational Sports, practiced in the best education systems and in unsystematic forms of education, thus preventing lower-income young people from being excluded from the market due to lack of opportunity. The purpose is to achieve the integral development of the individual and their training for the exercise of citizenship and leisure.
Validity: may . 2023 to may . 2024
In Educational Robotics classes, the activity of inventing, programming, assembling and moving a tiny robot exercising logical reasoning, providing collaborative work, data sharing and promoting interdisciplinarity.
Chess activities also play an extremely important role in preparing for the future, learning and practicing chess represents not only an option for leisure and sport, but also a means that makes it possible to develop fundamental skills in the development of children and young people, among others. them, the power of concentration and logical reasoning, the creation of strategies to propose innovative solutions, the initiative for decision making and persistence. These are some of the infinity of pedagogical gains promoted by the activities of the Checkmate project.
In 2023, chess workshop students had the opportunity to participate in several championships and tournaments. Check out:
Minas Gerais Youth Festival of Rapid Chess
Promoted by the Minas Gerais Chess Federation, two chess players won the title of Minas Gerais runners-up – under-10 and under-12 female categories. Another eight athletes from the Institute were classified among the top 10 in their categories.
In the Minas Gerais Blitz Chess Championship
Held by the Minas Gerais Chess Federation in Pará de Minas, two chess players won third place in the competition that included representatives from several cities in Minas Gerais.
In the Regional Chess Cup
Held in Contagem, 14 students participated in the competition – which resulted in good placements on the podium. Four chess players won 1st place, two 2nd place, three 3rd place and another five athletes occupied the top ten positions.
6th stage of the Betim Chess Championship
Nine students from the Institute stood out among the three best placed in their categories, two of them being champions. Two of our chess players took 1st place on the podium, four took 2nd place, three took 3rd place and another five were among the six best classified.
