ATLANTA JUNIOR BRIDGE

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• ATLANTA JUNIOR BRIDGE
• Bridging the gap between learning fun and healthy
  competition

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AGENDA

• Introduction
• Program Details
• Structure, Officers Teachers
• Corporate Sponsorships

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What Is Atlanta Junior Bridge?

• Atlanta Junior Bridge (AJB) is a non-profit
  corporation offering children and young adults
  the opportunity to learn and play bridge. We are
  a 501(c)(3) organization, and donations to us are
  fully tax deductible.
• Funded by private and corporate donations, AJB
  provides teachers and materials to organizations
  in the greater Atlanta area that sponsor free
  bridge lessons and playing facilities.

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Why Take This Approach?

• Bridge is an activity that has no social,
  physical, geographic or economic boundaries.
  Learning and playing bridge is a vehicle to join
  our diverse community in a single pursuit.
  Bridge levels the playing field.

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Why Take This Approach?

• It is a well documented fact that children are
  graduating from our high schools with less
  ability to comprehend math, logic and critical
  thinking
• Recent research done by Dr. Christopher Shaw in
  Illinois has proven that Bridge can be used to
  bolster their capabilities in these areas

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ResearchFrom Iowa Test Of Basic Skills (ITBS)

• ITBS 15 Bridge
  86 Non-Bridge
  DIFFERENCE
• SUBJECT Students
  Students DIFFERENCE
  DIVIDED BY
• AREA Avg. SS GAIN Avg. SS GAIN
  IN SS GAINS NON BR GAIN
• READING 40.87 33.87 7.00
  20.66
• LANGUAGE 51.07 45.04 6.03
  13.39
• MATH 51.53
  41.48 10.05 24.22
• SCIENCE 52.27 37.52 14.75
  39.31
• SOCIAL 45.13 36.77 8.36
  22.74
• STUDIES
• Note Detailed research report is provided in the
  attached package
• Source Iowa Test Of Basic Skills (ITBS)

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Benefits of Bridge

• Research of critical thinking activities, such as
  Bridge, indicates that children show improved
  scores in math, reading, logic and comprehension,
  as well as improved short term memory retention.
  
• Bridge also provides an opportunity to improve
  softer skills such as communicating and working
  towards a common goal with a partner
• Lastly, Bridge offers children an opportunity to
  socialize in a secure environment, away from
  distractions

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Benefits of Bridge

• Duplicate Bridge is a game of mathematics. The
  game is a vehicle for introducing but not limited
  to the following concepts
• Numbers and Operations
• Data Analysis
• Probability and Statistics
• Problem Solving
• Reasoning with partial information
• Communications

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Benefits Of Bridge

• Children who have a natural propensity towards
  mathematics will find the game of Duplicate
  Bridge both challenging and rewarding.
• For children that dont, Bridge provides a fun
  way to improve their skills in critical thinking
  and mathematics.

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Learning

• Bridge will be taught at schools and other
  sponsoring agencies by qualified bridge teachers,
  followed by playing time.
• Intense, 5-day courses will be held through
  Summer Camps. These camps are two hour classes
  in which the children are taught the basics of
  bridge.
• In geographic locations where school classes and
  summer camps were held, we have continuing
  classes for children who would like to pursue
  their interest.

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Summer Camps 2006
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Playing

• Playing sessions are held after each class
• Local games are organized under ACBL rules and
  AJB supervision, and managed by ACBL accredited
  directors
• AJB has established once-a-month youth games at
  local duplicate clubs in Marietta, Norcross and
  Marietta

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Tournaments

• Atlanta hosts several ACBL tournaments each year.
  During the course of these events, a special
  junior game is organized and conducted
• AJB has established a Georgia State Youth Open
  Pair and Swiss Team State Championship which is
  held annually
• AJB is the organizer and host of the first Youth
  North American Bridge Championships to be held in
  Atlanta in Summer 2008
• These tournaments and games are sanctioned by
  ACBL and Master Points are awarded

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Corporate Structure

• Atlanta Junior Bridge works closely with the
  American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) the
  governing body for Duplicate Bridge.
• Along with those affiliations on a national
  level, the local governing bodies consist of the
  Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta, Unit
  114, District 7, and the Mid Atlantic Bridge
  Conference.
• Program participants will play in games
  sanctioned by the ACBL and supervised by ACBL
  certified directors.

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Current Corporate Sponsors
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Sponsorship and Grants

• Atlanta Junior Bridge needs assistance to
  continue its 2008 classes and camps.
• AJB expects to hold thirty classes in the metro
  Atlanta area in 2008 (15 in January-May and 15 in
  September-December)
• AJB expects to hold eighteen summer camps in 2008
• Each class/camp will teach approximately 16
  children and will cost 650.00/class