Reno Youth Bridge, Inc.

 Greetings from Reno Youth Bridge, Inc.  This website is here for all  parents and students in the Truckee River Valley.  Come read about the fully funded program that Reno Youth Bridge is sponsoring at the middle schools, here in Reno and Sparks, more..... 

WCSD Middle School Bridge Teams in finals of Year-end Team Match Championship

Students from Sparks and Shaw Middle Schools and High Desert Montessori Charter School met in the finals of Reno Youth Bridge Year-end Team Championship.  After a very close match High Desert Montessori Charter School emerged as the winner by only one victory point over Sparks Middle School who had a huge lead going into the last match.  Shaw Middle School, the other team in the finals finished third primarily because of a misjudgement in defense in a match against Sparks Middle School.

 Shown above are Harley DeGuzman, Tanner Vaughn, Shane Helton, Sonny Knowles and team Coach Kathy Lane.

Pictured above are the finalists and their coaches in the Reno Youth Bridge Year-end Team Match play Championships.  From Left to right, Jean Peters, Susan Cinfio, Brittney Hazen, Josh Kimrey, Natalie Barret, Antonion Rodriguez,Kevin Corado, Dan Green, Susan Davenport, Cassie Philips, Shane Helton, Sonney Knowles,Harley DeGuzman, Kathy Lane, Bud Brewer, Tanner Vaughn.

Cassie Phillips, Alex Ford, Josh Kimrey, and Kevin Corado all from Shaw Middle School

Popularity for Team matches between the WCSD Middle Schools are challenging the School Administrators to seek more students to join Reno Youth Bridge after school activity programs so their school can be represented by the best candidates to learn and compete in this challenging game.  Cassi Phillips gives the game a thumbs up as the Shaw Middle School team prepares to do battle with the other Schools in Washoe County.

Duplicate Bridge is an unbelievably perfect game. It involves teamwork, problem solving, deduction, deception, reasoning, planning, bravado, communication, nuance, and luck.  It iis also fun.  It provides the student with an intellectual competitive opportunity that is largely dependent on inferential reasoning and partnership communication skills based on the use of one or more of only fifteen words or phrases allowed to be used in the bidding and playing of a contract.  This limitation makes it possible for people from anywhere in the world to sit down at a table together and play the game of bridge although they do not speak each other's language. 

    

 

Guess who showed up at our RYB Tournament Saturday at the Grand Sierra.

Reno Youth Bridge Team members Sierra Turk and Natalie Barrett won the RYB Open pairs at the NABC tournament Saturday afternoon, March 20th, with a monstrous finnish scoring two tops

and one above average on the last three boards to pull away from the field that was tightly bunched with one round to go. More...

 

The famous visitor stopped by to congratulate the students for becoming involved with the greatest card game in the world. He said bridge will help each of you be a better student and also have something special that will last a lifetime

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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates play their favorite card game

 

Statistically Speaking Research studies by Dr Christopher Shaw of Carlinville Illinois showed that students who learn to bid and play bridge score better on standard Iowa tests. more... Bridge Base Online

 

 

 

 Students learning how to play and practice  on the internet with people from all over the world.  Bud Brewer, shown here, Hosts a Teaching Table each Saturday morning at 10:00AM to 12:00Noon for RYB students to come on line and practice their bidding and play. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

    

 

 

 

 

Reno Youth Bridge offers Honorarium to  Middle School Teachers.

 

Reno Youth Bridge announced new plans for teaching bridge to Washoe County Middle School students for the comming school year.  Kathy Lane, President of RYB, reported the details for the new program scheduled to begin in September of this year.  After RYB officers met with Washoe County School District's Deputy Superintendent last month, a joint effort has been underway to increase the participation and support by the District's Middle Schools teaching students to learn and play contract bridge in prelude to the formation of bridge teams to play in ACBL and RYB interscholastic competition.  Certified teachers at each Middle School will have the opportunity to volunteer to become responsible to teach students, organize partnership teams and supervise the school's bridge program in preparation of their school team's  participation in tournament play next Spring. Reno Youth Bridge has scheduled 2 seminars September 11th and September 18th  to provide the volunteer teachers with the basics of the bidding and playing the game and a general lesson plan. Reno Youth Bridge has offered to provide participating certified teachers with an honorarium of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each of two 16 one hour per week class learning sessions along with oversight of student free time practice sessions (For more information on this program contact Bud Brewer at 775-849-4113 or Kathy Lane at 775-324-0353). 

In the Spring, RYB will sponsor two major interscholastic tournaments for the students in the program. The first will take place at the Spring Sectional Tournament sponsored by the Reno Unit of the ACBL.  A special Pair Event for all students of the County's Middle Schools will be held on the Saturday morning of that week's tournament.
Following the end of the Spring Semester, The Reno Youth Bridge WCSD Middle School Team Championship Tournament will give the school teams a chance to compete against each other.

Last June Reno Youth Bridge completed its second year administering a pilot program for teaching bridge to students at the five schools of Shaw, Sparks, Swope and Billinghurst Middle Schools and the High Desert Motessori Charter School.  Participating students had the unusual opportunity to participate in the American Contract Bridge League's North American Bridge Championships in March of this year at the Grand Sierra Resort.  Players from all over the world participated in this event including some of our more famous bridge players, Bill Gates and Fred Gittleman. Gates, an avid bridge player, is the founder of Microsoft and among the two or three richest men in the world. He visited with the students and posed with them in a group picture before their Saturday pair event as did Fred Gittleman, designer of the popular Bridge Base Online computer program. BBO allows participants from all over the world to open their computer and play the game of bridge with each other on the internet. 

Reno Youth Bridge is a 501.c.3 non profit Nevada Corporation established in 2008 to teach students of Reno how to play bridge. To make a donation in support of their effort call Bud Brewer at 775-849-4113 or send an e-mail to budbrewer@budor.com

 

High Desert Montessori Charter Wins 2009-2010 Bridge Championship

Alex Ford and Cassie Phillips of Shaw Middle School teamed up with Harley DeGuzman and Sonnie Knowles of High Desert Montessori Charter Schools
to win the RYB Duplicate Youth Bridge Team Match over the Sparks Middle School team of Brittany Phillps, Harley Broadhead, Jacob Krall and Dylan Zabala Saturday April 17th at the Reno Unit Sectional Tournament.   Scoring was based on International Match Points and in a two session event, the big swing board came when Cassie Phillips doubled Jacob's game bid and set it 800 points to earn 10 imps for their team.  

SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL WINS RENO YOUTH BRIDGE NABC CHAMPIONSHIPS

 KARLY AGERHOLE  & SIERRA JICKLING

Patrick Dempsey & Nathan Kerr

Saturday, March 13,2010: Amid participants from all over the world, the Reno Youth Bridge Championship Tournament was held this morning right next to over 1000 regular ACBL members seeking to win the North American Bridge Championships + Platinum Pairs. More.... 

 

RENO YOUTH BRIDGE PLANNING INTERSCHOLASTIC TEAM MATCH IN APRIL.

Flush with excitement after their great showing at the North American Bridge Championships, the Reno Youth Bridge Middle school bridge teams are gearing up for their first Team game Knock Out Match. more... 

  

The strong showing by Swope and Sparks in their first year has them challenging the more experienced teams of Billinghurst and Shaw Middle school and the High Desert Montessori Charter school. 

 

Shown here are the members of the 2010 Shaw Middle School Bridge Team along with their volunteer teachers, Jean Peters, Susan and Ralph Cinfio and Cindy Mercado, Parent Representitive.

Shown above is the Sparks Bridge Team and their teacher Dan Green, Pat Green and faculty advisor, Susan Davenport.

 

Members of the 2009-2010 HDMS Bridge Team shown here with instructor John Young.  The team did well at the NABC and expects to get a similar result at the Team match.