North Star Academy

Chess Program
Fall 2025

Powerup Introductory Chess

Class Schedule: 

Wednesdays from 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

August 27th – October 1st, 2025
No off days

On-Site Location
Classroom to be determined by school administration

In this PowerChess 6-week program for those grades K-6th, students can expect to learn the foundational concepts of the game of chess, tactical patterns, checkmating patterns, opening ideas, and endgame ideas, and play weekly tournament-style chess games. Each class will have a 30-minute lesson on one of these concepts, which will feature group discussion, solving chess puzzles as a class, and watching a short multimedia presentation. Following the lesson, students will play a weekly tournament-style chess game against fellow students to practice the ideas they are learning. 
What is included with your student’s registration:

  • ️Premium 1hr weekly chess instruction from a trained PowerChess instructor

  • ️Premium Membership to the world’s largest children’s chess website, chesskid.com (a value of $30.00)

  • ️Ability to win weekly chess prizes

  • ️Competition in weekly chess tournament games and tournament awards