Word: agassiz
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Charney hopes that other schools in Massachusetts and beyond will follow the example of Agassiz...
Adam I. Fogel, 10, plays a lot of chess. The Agassiz Elementary School fifth grader was a member of the 1990 Massachusetts junior high championship chess team...
Then again, before Saturday, some of Fogel's schoolmates at Agassiz had never played chess at all. They got their first chance at the Agassiz Fair, thanks to Dr. Michael Charney and 15 Harvard Chess Club and Phillips Brooks House (PBH) volunteers...
Charney, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, built the oversized chess pieces and board for The Games Project, a rapidly expanding program he founded last year to introduce chess to inner-city youths. At events like Saturday's Agassiz Fair, he has found that the children are very receptive to the game...
...Search Support Group: How to find or create your own--with phyllis Stein, director of Radcliffe Career Services. In Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard at 4 p.m. Admissions is $5, free for Harvard students...