I.S. 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos
135 Harrison Avenue | also 101 Walton Street, 140 Lorimer Street | South Williamsburg | built 1959
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- 1999
Elizabeth Spiegel is hired as a part-time chess tutor at I.S. 318
Elizabeth Spiegel was hired as a part-time chess tutor at I.S. 318 in 1999 and became the team's full-time teacher in 2007. About half of the students at the Williamsburg junior high take chess classes, and she coaches the 80-member team. Author Paul Tough wrote in 2012 that the program was the best middle-school chess program in the country.
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- 2009
I.S. 318 wins the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade titles at the national scholastic championship
At the 2009 National Scholastic K-12 Championship run by the United States Chess Federation, the school's chess team took the titles for the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. One of its coaches said in 2012 that the team had collected at least two dozen national championships since 2000. Member Justus Williams became the youngest African-American national master, at age 12.
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- 2011
A cogeneration plant donates $25,000 to the chess program as it faces budget cuts
Budget cuts hit the chess team in 2011, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Plant gave $25,000 to the school's chess program. By 2013 the team was still struggling to raise enough money for its after-school lessons and competition travel.
“In 2011, as the school's team faced budget cuts, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Plant donated $25,000 to the school's chess program.”
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- 2012
I.S. 318 becomes the first middle school to win the national high school chess championship
In 2012 the school's team took the national high school championship of the United States Chess Federation, the first middle school team to do so since the event began in 1969. It beat students four years older among 318 competing teams, defeating teams including Stuyvesant and Edward R. Murrow. The same year, the documentary Brooklyn Castle, which followed the team, won the audience award at South by Southwest.
“In 2012, its team became the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation national high school championship since the competition started in 1969…”
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- 2015
Four I.S. 318 girls qualify for the World Youth Chess Championship in Greece
In 2015 the school's team won the New York City and New York State junior high championships, the Mayor's Cup and the All-Girls National Championship. Four students, Nancy Wang, Mengnan Chen, Vicki Yang and Katrina Wong, qualified for the World Youth Championship in Halkidiki, Greece.
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