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The class is one of 90 courses offered this year through the University's Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, now marking its 25th anniversary.
Several participants will be going on to a national event this summer in Rancho Mirage, California. This was Jackson Hole Classical Academy's first scholastic chess tournament and the first in Wyoming in five years. They're also holding a chess camp next month for all interested K-12 students.
Last spring the Jackson Hole High School Speech and Debate team was in Green River. It was the annual state tournament, where the team usually does pretty well. As with any competitive endeavor, students were going through their warm-up rituals, preparing, reading notes, whatever they needed to do to be ready. About an hour before events were supposed to start, the news came: The tournament had been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was just beginning to spread to Wyoming. âWe had gone down the night before and everything, so it was such a disappointing thing,â coach ...