Warren Woodberry

Executive Director and Artist

Welcome to the Woodberry Park Inventors, Chess & Art website. What is the value of chess? Recent studies have shown that chess taught in inner city schools can play a transforming role in the life of children. Studies have been conducted between chess players and students all over the world that do not play. Chess students have shown the most improvements in creativity, and strategy. In 1986 American educators in other schools began conducting similar testing and began sending chess teachers into the schools to see if chess could motivate inner city students and found the same results. A program in New York was called Chess In Schools and gained momentum after one of the inner city schools won a national championship and stories of other inner-city youths winning major scholastic chess championships began to appear in the daily newspapers. Welcome to the Woodberry Park Chess Club at Jones Leadership Academy.

Warren also helped start Chess for FREE at Wildwood Metroparks Toledo in 2022

Mission Statement:
The mission of the Woodberry Park Kids, Cartoons and Chess is to promote increased knowledge and understanding of the game of chess for its own sake and through critical thinking and art.

Assisting me with the program will be my wife and Artist:

Yolanda Woodberry.

My aha moment videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyGf6fTwfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-j5SWpVUNc

WAYS TO TRANSFORM A CHILD'S MIND
The power of invention ....MENSA FOR KIDS

https://www.mensaforkids.org/teach/lesson-plans/the-power-of-invention/

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How Invention Education Brings Creativity Back Into The Classroom

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenkey/2021/06/23/how-invention-education-brings-creativity-back-into-the-classroom/?sh=1fba3d3967d3

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Top 10 Benefits of Chess from Chess.com
(CLICK ON PDF BELOW)