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Students in Flickinger, Schuchard and Roberts earned nearly 20 team and individual awards at the annual Elementary Chess Championship held February at Michigan State University.
Utica Community Schools students were kings for the day at a recent state chess tournament.
Students in Flickinger, Schuchard and Roberts earned nearly 20 team and individual awards at the annual Elementary Chess Championship held February at Michigan State University.
Teams played in five rounds during the more than 12-hour tournament.
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UCS awards earned during the competition include:
Flickinger Elementary Knights
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- Silver Medal Jenna Burnham (3rd grade)
Roberts Elementary Rooks
Bronze medals
- Sam Caldwell (6th grade)
- Owen Aeck (Kindergarten)
- Silver medals Ovik Deb (6th grade)
- Michael Sheaves (5th grade)
- Gabe Whitt (4th grade)
- Natsuki Itakura (5th grade)
- Ian Reynolds (3rd grade)
Team Trophies
- 10th place, K-3 Championship section - Evan Aeck, Saptarshi Deb, Stephen Smith, Keegan Forbe
- 4th place, K-3 Reserve section -
Jordan Jarbo, Ian Reynolds, Grant Shovlin, Owen Aeck
Schuchard Knights
Gold Medal
- Josh Thomas - 6th grade
Bronze Medals
- Connor Harrison - 2nd grade
- Rohan Desai - 4th grade
Silver Medals
- Evan Barash - 5th grade
- Abheet Bhugra - 3rd grade
- William Harrison - 6th grade
- Zack Werbrouck - 6th grade
Team trophy
- 5th Place in the K-6 section -
William, Harrison, Zack Werbrouck, Evan Barash, Ciprian Savu
The students will next be participating in the 18th Annual UCS Chess Tournament, scheduled for Saturday April 13th at Henry Ford II Ford High School.