Labor Day 2019!
July 22-25, M-Th 1:30pm-3:30pm, Fall Grades 3-5 Brain & Body Camp – Emmet Williams Elementary
July 15-19, M-F 1pm-3pm, Ages 7-13 Brain & Body Camp – Highland Park Community Center, St Paul
July 15-19, M-F 10am-Noon, Ages 7-13 Brains on Games Camp – Groveland Recreation Center, St Paul
June 11-27, 13 days M-F 8am-Noon 6th-12th Fall SA: Simulation Games, Columbia Heights HS
Labor Day 2018:
K-2, K-5, K-8, USCF Rated K-Adult (not team) Read more →
Open to all SoWashCo students. Register on Eleyo » Elementary... Read more →
Chess & Strategy Game Association Board of Directors
Give us a call today to learn more about our upcoming events!
Bill Nara
651.208.8762
bill.nara@csga-enrichment.org
Rich Weber
651.307.2851
richardmweber@comcast.net
Jeff Hahn
jeff.w.hahn@outlook.com
Julie Miller
djjamiller@me.com
We exist to provide opportunities for young players to get together to learn new games, strategies, and tactics at open events and competitions. We also promote a growing community of chess and strategy game players that value learning, teaching, and fun through playing games that foster creativity, analysis, socialization, fair play, mental challenges, and connectedness.
The Chess & Strategy Game Association, CSGA Enrichment, was founded in 2014 by Executive Director Bill Nara, a former high school teacher, who saw a great need for before and after school programs and summer programming for students in K-12.
As a youth, Bill participated in programs based on his personal interests and found these programs were no longer offered to students. He began CSGA programming with chess and strategy games with 5 students in one school district. As the program grew, CSGA brought on Associate Executive Director Jason Lavine, and expanded CSGA into more school districts.
It became apparent that additional programs beyond chess and strategy games were needed to meet the needs and interests of students. STEM programs including coding, 3D printing, robotics, and rocket building, and cultural and arts classes including cooking, young writers workshop, rock band, and Improv, and specific interest programs such as crafting, knitting, and fishing were added.
More recently, online program options have been introduced for chess players and students interested in personal finance and the stock market. CSGA wants students engaged in self motivated activities that could lead to entrepreneurship. CSGA is currently operating in over 11 school districts reaching over 1,200 students.
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