Schools
Fernbank Elementary Chess Team, Whiz Kids of the Week
Students to compete in state competition next week
- Fernbank Elementary School Chess Club,
- Accomplishment: Both the K-3 and K-5 teams from Fernbank won the regional tournament last month and will compete in the state championships next Saturday, March 19. Anand Srinivasan and Arjun Srinivasan both had perfect records.
- K-3 participants: Andrew Miller, Ted Shepherd, Eunsu Hur, Thomas Sudlow, Aditya Ramesh, James Hardy, Drego Beckwith, Charlie Reid, Anish Kumar, Robert Benfield, Sam Cohen, Alexander Jovanovic, Ethan Shi, Samuel Williams, Paloma DiDia, Jamie Orson, Sean Walsh, Harrison Reeves, Sanjeev Anand, Jinwoo Park, Ian Bendoly, Kyra Councill, Joo Heon Lee, Joe Schneiderjan, Jackson Reynolds, Thomas Hollahan, Sam Baird-Winter, Zoe Butler-Purgis, Dennis Disantis and Shaswat Dhakai
- K-5 participants: Eliza Armstrong, Arjun Srinivasan, Conor Walsh, Henry Wallace, Matthew Dacey-Koo, Grant Derdeyn-Blackwell, Tabish Rayani and Allejandro Desrochers.
For more information or to nominate a Whiz Kid, please email jaclyn.hirsch@patch.com.
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